I came across something in my copy of "Ada Plus Data Structures: An Object Oriented Approach" (1996) that deserves a slight necro-post. In the front cover I've written a tonne of exam notes...
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Re: If a method calls a recursive method, does that make the method recursive as well?
I came across something in my copy of "Ada Plus Data Structures: An Object Oriented Approach" (1996) that deserves a slight necro-post. In the front cover I've written a tonne of exam notes...
Re: If a method calls a recursive method, does that make the method recursive as well?
I like to think of recursion as a property of an algorithm instead of a property of a method. So I would argue that .last() is recursive because functionally that is what it is doing.