Re: Increasing the stack?

From: Stewart Gordon (smjg_1998_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/04/03 

Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 15:49:50 +0000

While it was 4/11/03 12:10 pm throughout the UK, bm sprinkled little
black dots on a white screen, and they fell thus:

> "Stewart Gordon" <smjg_1998@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:bo84kr$fpv$1@sun-cc204.lut.ac.uk...
>> While it was 3/11/03 8:15 pm throughout the UK, bm sprinkled little
<snip>
>> So something like this
>>
>> void hellos() { System.out.println("Hello, infinite recursion");
>> hellos(); }
>>
>> isn't a recursion?
>
> Unfortunately not based on the correct definition of recursion.

I guess what we should say:
All iterations can be rewritten either as recursions or as things that
are just like recursions only infinite.

What is the name for these "things that are just like recursions only
infinite"?

> You see the above program will not run :) Unless we relax the
> definition of a program also.

I don't see an above program. Nor do I see anything that was intended
to be an above program.

Stewart. 

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