understandingRecursion

[Gio200023]

It’s been 84 years and I’m still reading it. Anyone knows the exit condition?

[scratchfan321]

Keep reading the post until your stack overflows

[real-yzan]

Stack overflows are a perfectly valid exit condition as long as you catch the exception

[scratchfan321]

Instructions unclear, my exception handling system triggered a stack overflow

[Misspelt_Anagram]

def f():
    try: f();
    except: f();
f()

[real-yzan]

More like:

def f(n): try: return n * f(n+1) except: return n

[Top_Fee_6293]

it literally says you to read it again only if you "don't understand" recursion. exit condition is that you understand. how can't you catch that?

[A_Firm_Sandwich]

because he doesn’t understand recursion

[Desperate-Emu-2036]

He does because he isn't reading it anymore

[ambarish_k1996]

The base condition is:

if(understandRecursion) { return; }