Chapter 11
Calling Yourself
WHAT’S IN THIS CHAPTER?
- Recursion in C#
- Tail Recursion
- Accumulator Passing Style
- Continuation Passing Style
- Indirect Recursion
In functional programming languages, recursion is a tool with a lot of tradition. Many of the original functional languages didn’t have any loop constructs, and recursion was used for all cases where looping is typically used in imperative languages. Even though some functional languages have extended syntax today that allows for imperative looping, recursion is, for many programmers, still the preferred approach.
