Recursive Routine (Noun)
Meaning
A routine that can call itself.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The computer programmer designed a recursive routine to efficiently sort large datasets by repeatedly breaking them down into smaller subsets.
- A recursive routine was used in the algorithm to calculate the factorial of a given number by calling itself with decreasing input values.
- The recursive routine proved to be an elegant solution to the complex problem of traversing tree data structures in the database.
- By using a recursive routine, the developer created a simple yet powerful function to generate all permutations of a given set of elements.
- Error handling in the program relied on a recursive routine that retraced the function call stack to identify and report the source of the problem.