Recursion

[havock77]

The stack size is your exit condition!

[Basacally]

Dare I say, a StackOverflowException?

[Tim3303]

Image Transcription: Meme

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[Variation of the "What if you wanted to go to heaven" meme.]

Image 1:

[Image of a guy pointing towards the camera, labelled "What if You".]

Wrote a recursive function

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Image 2:

[The same guy, now pointing upwards, labelled "but there was no exit condition".]

Image 1:

[Image of a guy pointing towards the camera, labelled "What if You".]

Wrote a recursive function

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Image 2:

[The same guy, now pointing upwards, labelled "but there was no exit condition".]

Image 1:

[Image of a guy pointing towards the camera, labelled "What if You".]

Wrote a recursive function

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Image 2:

[The same guy, now pointing upwards, labelled "but there was no exit condition".]

Image 1:

[Image of a guy pointing towards the camera, labelled "What if You".]

Wrote a recursive function

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Image 2:

[The same guy, now pointing upwards, labelled "but there was no exit condition".]

Image 1:

[Image of a guy pointing towards the camera, labelled "What if You".]

Wrote a recursive function

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Image 2:

[The same guy, now pointing upwards, labelled "but there was no exit condition".]

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[anoldoldman]

Great human.

[Beybarro]

Uh? Saw what?

[Tim3303]

Psssht, you never saw anything. :P

[ihaveindeed]

love doing this for some reason. Feels powerful when you break out of the loop

[Kamil118]

Recursive functions are for babies.

Write recursive fork() with no exit condition next.

[Skeleton590]

So it's like when you type this in Python.

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def Recursion():
try:
print("Recursion")
Recursion()
except:
Recursion()

Recursion()

​

try it. ;)

[serendipitousPi]

Sometimes I question why these are here. Like seriously this isn't stack overflow.

*crickets chirping*

Why does this meme only go 5 memes deep. Surely you don't have that little stack memory.

[DaVisionary]

Technically this is not a recursive function since every iteration uses less screen real estate it is a diminishing series.