Name: Anonymous 2011-06-01 2:33
Hey /prog/, I must say my understanding of recursion is shit (never really dealt with recursion in all my days of writing bad code). How should I go about thinking about it?
inb4 flaming: I understand the recursive concept in some contexts, such as when it is used in a factorial function, but when it starts getting more ambiguous (say, exercise 5, ch. 2 from ANSI Common Lisp) it's ugly.
inb4 RECURSE MY ANUS
inb4 flaming: I understand the recursive concept in some contexts, such as when it is used in a factorial function, but when it starts getting more ambiguous (say, exercise 5, ch. 2 from ANSI Common Lisp) it's ugly.
inb4 RECURSE MY ANUS