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We explained in Section 11.3 that one consequence of the rules of scope is that a procedure may call itself. But what is the meaning of such a process? In fact, this is a familiar concept in mathematics, known as recursion.
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Thalmann, D. (1985). Recursion. In: Modula-2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69668-8_13
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