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  58. <h3 class="subsection">2.7.9 Recursion</h3>
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  60. <p>Defining functions or programs self referentially is sometimes
  61. informally known as recursion. In functional languages, the clever use
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  64. of &ldquo;combinators&rdquo; is often preferred to this practice, and is in fact well
  65. supported by the virtual machine. However, some computations may be
  66. inexpressible without an explicitly &ldquo;recursive&rdquo; formulation, so there
  67. is some support for that as well.
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