alt Hacker News> don’t use recursion: spends multiple paragraphs implying that a function calling itself isn’t recursion
It did the opposite. It wrote many paragraphs of code and threw each one out as soon as recursion showed up.
> don’t use recursion: spends multiple paragraphs implying that a function calling itself isn’t recursion
It did the opposite. It wrote many paragraphs of code and threw each one out as soon as recursion showed up.
I’ll re-read it, because clearly I don’t get it. And I’d like to.
My first two attempts made it seem like it was building on a function calling itself, with itself as an argument (so that it can call itself). I’m not sure how that isn’t recursion, and I didn’t read it as throwing away those approaches. But, as I say, I’ll re-read it…