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[–] kogasa@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's just "recurrence." The same as a "while" loop. Recursion is specifically when a procedure invokes itself.

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair enough. Point is nothing is getting smaller except the call stack.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

The thing that's getting smaller is the "complexity" or "distance from the trivial case" of the function invocation. This is an informal notion though.