From: Bob Hutchison <hutch-lists@...>
Date: 2010-01-04T05:24:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Few clarifications on recursion

Hi,

On 3-Jan-10, at 11:53 AM, Panagiotis Atmatzidis wrote:

> So this is the whole point of recursion to run the program  
> (backwards in this case) until the even that will stop the recursion  
> happens.


If are interested in pursuing recursion in any depth, you are in luck:

<http://se.inf.ethz.ch/people/meyer/down/touch/index.html>

The sample chapter is on recursion, and does a good job of explaining  
recursion I think (and checkout my email address :-) It is using  
Eiffel rather than Ruby, but that won't matter since the ideas are  
directly transferable.

Cheers,
Bob

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