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> Which has nothing to do with recursion. Had you read the article you might have realized this term is overloaded.
by wickawic 9y ago
> Which has nothing to do with recursion.
Had you read the article you might have realized this term is overloaded.
- Animats 9y ago“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that's all.” - Lewis Carroll, a mathematician who wrote stories in his spare time.
- pasquinelli 9y agoA function calls a function with its own name-- there is a resemblance to recursion, where a function calls a function with its own name. This is the first I've ever heard of any controversy with the term "open recursion." Is it a common complaint, that the term "open recursion" abuses the notion of recursion?
- Tarean 9y agoJust because you didn't happen to not know this one doesn't mean that anyone just invented a new meaning. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_(computer_programming)#Open_recursion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_(computer_programming)#...
- dTal 9y agoI feel compelled to link the xkcd from the Friday before last: https://xkcd.com/1860/ https://xkcd.com/1860/