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Procedures may not only be called, but can call procedures themselves. Since any procedure that is visible can be called, a procedure may call itself. This self-reactivation is called recursion. Its use is appropriate when an algorithm is recursively defined and in particular when applied to a recursively defined data structure.
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Wirth, N. (1988). Recursion. In: Programming in Modula-2. Text and Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83565-0_14
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