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Not trying to be pedantic, I just want to know if recurse is now an accepted word. Any thoughts? Sources seem to vary, and I know as a young field CS forms new
by thomasjames 12y ago
Not trying to be pedantic, I just want to know if recurse is now an accepted word. Any thoughts? Sources seem to vary, and I know as a young field CS forms new words fairly often still, but it is clear historically that the verb base of "recursion" is "recur". Has recurse become the accepted form for discussion relating to algorithms, though?
- dragonwriter 12y ago> Not trying to be pedantic, I just want to know if recurse is now an accepted word. It seems to be frequently used and accepted, with the definition presented in Wiktionary: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recurse http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recurse While "recur" also has, among its meanings, the same meaning, "recurse" seems vastly more likely to be used when the particular computing-specific meaning is intended. Though I don't think any general-purpose professionally-edited dictionaries I've seen reflect this usage yet.