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From: john@nmt.edu (John Shipman)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: The word "recurse"
Summary: recur
Message-ID: <1990Jul13.055219.2587@nmt.edu>
Date: 13 Jul 90 05:52:19 GMT
References: <1990Jul12.181205.6868@IDA.ORG> <1990Jul12.215250.5031@csrd.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Zoological Data Processing
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John Michael Lake (jmlake@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu) writes:
+--
| From the on-line version of the Oxford English Dictionary...
|   recurse, v. Obs. rare [-1 ]. [ad. L. recurs-are: see prec. ]
|     intr.   To recur.
+--              ^^^^^

There's your answer.  Recursive functions may be said to recur.
-- 
John Shipman/Zoological Data Processing/Socorro, NM/john@jupiter.nmt.edu
``Let's go outside and commiserate with nature.''  --Dave Farber