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While implementing a recursive function, it often happens that we must resort to a separate ''helper function'' to handle the actual recursion. |
While implementing a recursive function, it often happens that we must resort to a separate ''helper function'' to handle the actual recursion. |
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This is usually the case when directly calling the current function would waste too many resources (stack space, execution time), causing unwanted side-effects, and/or the function doesn't have the right arguments and/or return values. |
This is usually the case when directly calling the current function would waste too many resources (stack space, execution time), causing unwanted side-effects, and/or the function doesn't have the right arguments and/or return values. |
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