[REBOL] Re: On ordinal and cardinal numbers...
From: agem:crosswinds at: 10-Jul-2001 18:08
RE: [REBOL] Re: On ordinal and cardinal numbers...
Hi Joel,
its the proto for the Zine i hope?
Great!
-Volker
[joel--neely--fedex--com] wrote:
> Hi, Paul,
>
> Paul Tretter wrote:
> >
> > Since I'm relatively new at programming, can you explain what
> > is meant by recursion and iteration? I just want to learn ;)
> >
>
> Certainly!
>
> Iteration
> is just the conventional jargon for "repetition" (as
> in "let me re-iterate" instead of "let me repeat"). The words
> LOOP, FOR, FOREACH, UNTIL, and (of course) REPEAT are all ways
> of doing iteration in REBOL.
>
> Recursion
> basically means something which is defined in terms
> of itself, such as a function that calls itself, directly or
> indirectly. (The standard joke, from the Jargon File, is
>
> recursion n. See recursion. See also tail recursion.
>
:-)
