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- <h4 class="subsection">2.7.9 Recursion</h4>
- <p><a name="index-recursion-295"></a>Defining functions or programs self referentially is sometimes
- informally known as recursion. In functional languages, the clever use
- <a name="index-combinators-296"></a><a name="index-functional-programming-297"></a>of “combinators” is often preferred to this practice, and is in fact well
- supported by the virtual machine. However, some computations may be
- inexpressible without an explicitly “recursive” formulation, so there
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