Recursion
It is legal for one
function to call another; it is also legal for a function to call itself. It may
not be obvious why what is a good thing, but it turns out to be one of the most
magical things a program can do. For example:
If a recursion never
reaches a base case, it goes on making recursive calls forever, and the program
never terminates. This is known as infinite recursion, and it is generally not a
good idea. In most programming environments, a program with infinite recursion
does not really run forever. Python reports an error message when the maximum
recursion depth is reached:
When the error occurs,
there are 1000 recurse frames on the stack.
form Thinking in
Python
时间: 2024-10-23 04:04:03