Guido is not opposed to recursion per-se, just on basing programming around it. As he says, > TRE only addresses recursion that can easily be replaced by a loo

Guido is not opposed to recursion per-se, just on basing programming around it. As he says, > TRE only addresses recursion that can easily be replaced by a loop and Python already has a very nice tool for that purpose. I have no doubt that he's fine with many other uses of recursion.