Talk:Recursion

The problem with this definition is that there's no stopping case. A sufficiently stupid interpreter could be caught in an infinite recursive loop. There should be some way to modify this definition to introduce a stopping case which is guaranteed to make the recursion actually stop, because if the definition suggests recursion is used without actually doing any explicit work to introduce a stopping case, then it never really defines how recursion is actually useful. What is really seems to be defining is "useless recursion" --Nerd42 16:42, 6 Arply 2011 (UTC)