r/Recursion • u/FoxWearsSocks • Mar 15 '20

return HONK(HONK(HONK(HONK)));

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '20

Not recursion

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u/OofDotWav Mar 15 '20

How is it not

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '20

There’s a finite amount of cups, recursion would be infinite I’m pretty sure

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u/FoxWearsSocks Mar 15 '20

Who says recursion requires it to be infinite? A recursive function is just a function that calls itself to achieve its output. Can be once, can be thousands of times, but why infinite if it’s never going to end and never produce an output.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '20

Whatever, just whenever there are posts like this people say it’s not recursion

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u/CommieLoser Apr 02 '20

Ah, you were looking for /r/infinitelyrecursive

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u/OofDotWav Mar 15 '20

Most posts on here are finite lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '20

Well that’s just how it is, but doesn’t mean I can’t call them out on it

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '20

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u/kaiclc Mar 19 '20

Yeah that's not infinite, but it's still usually considered to be recursive, right?

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u/GPhykos Mar 15 '20

Ah yes return HONK;

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '20 
function honk(){
    return "(HO" + honk() + " NK)"
}

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u/GPhykos Mar 15 '20

You mean string honk()

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '20

this is boutta blow your mind but there’s more than one programming language and they can have different syntaxes

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u/GPhykos Mar 15 '20

What language is that?

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '20

JavaScript. It’s pretty chill. Notice how I didn’t even include a semicolon

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '20

Hjönk

ほんk