Name: Anonymous 2011-06-04 23:39
I'm really interested in functional programming and I've been learning about it for a while a quite a while now but I've hit a subject which has left me stumped. That is recursion. I mean fucking hell, I can't figure it out! When I was learning how to code I was seeing nothing but for loops in other peoples code so that's how I do things. For loops everywhere! Hell I barely know how to use a while loop. Can someone tell me if there's a point to functional programming without recursion? Can you use iteration? Maybe you can explain recursion or link me to good examples because I sure haven't come across any.