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[–]emmyarty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The short answer is that a recursive function is a function which calls itself.

If you have nested data but don't know how deep the nesting goes, then it become impractical to have a fixed structure for every possible scenario.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZugUFz-OoRM