Re:I'm Sick of This
by herdrick on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @01:55PM
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What is naked recursion?
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Functions/methods that call themselves, as opposed to having a higher-level function that takes a function as an argument and does something recursive with it.
http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2008-11-2...
Ah, so naked recursion is recursion.
EDIT: I was going to criticize your idea that there is anything lacking in "naked recursion". It's a really powerful technique and in fact I just wrote a recursive function for production code an hour ago. Comment continued here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=555714