From: Phillip Gawlowski Date: 2010-01-04T02:34:56+09:00 Subject: Re: Few clarifications on recursion On 03.01.2010 18:25, Robert Klemme wrote: > Actually that description is true for loops (aka iterations) as well. > :-) The important bit of recursion - and the part where recursion and > iteration differ - in programming languages is, that it needs a > _function (or method)_ which calls _itself_. The actual difference is: recursion gives me headaches, iteration doesn't. ;P -- Phillip Gawlowski