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So what is it about recursion that eludes you? It is very strange to me that someone would find one of those concepts easy and the other not -- as you say, the
by ScottBurson 11y ago
So what is it about recursion that eludes you? It is very strange to me that someone would find one of those concepts easy and the other not -- as you say, they are two forms of the same thing.
- dvt 11y agoI guess it's more reading and writing it in code. In my case, it makes sense to read code like I read a book: it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. (Procedural, see?) A recursive function makes me do all these convoluted mental gymnastics when I'm just trying to figure out if Cinderella lived happily ever after or not.
- ScottBurson 11y agoI promise you, if you wrote and read more recursive functions, you would get used to them. It's just a matter of practice.
- coldtea 11y agoOne is linear, the other recurses (things into things into things). It's like comparing Star Wars to Inception.