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Have you actually explained it to people that way and had them get it? I think most people would just understand what you described as an iterative process, and
by allturtles 5y ago
Have you actually explained it to people that way and had them get it? I think most people would just understand what you described as an iterative process, and understand recur as being no different than repeat.
- mimixco 5y agoIndeed. Recursion requires that a procedure calls (or recurses over) itself.
- mimixco 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion https://www.lexico.com/definition/recurse https://www.lexico.com/definition/recurse
- zozbot234 5y agoIteration (repetition) is a special case of recursion where the recursive action is always the final step in the process; it's a kind of recursion that dispenses with the need to track a stack of process activations. So it's quite possible to teach both in the same context.