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when is it best to use a recursive function vs a for loop (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

IMHO almost never. Except for tree traversal, maybe.

[โ€“] livingcoder 2 points 11 months ago

I would agree. Only if the performance is extremely similar but the readability (for some reason) is significantly better for the recursive solution would I choose that.