>>Expect to find ReCurse.zip in Downloads as soon as Nick catches some breath - that is, assuming Nick is the filer.scx on UT.
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>Dragan - do me and the English language a favor and don't call it "recurse." There's no such word in English. The verb for "recursion" is "recur."
Too late - uploaded yesterday and it's now file #
21923.
However, as Mike pointed out, and AFAIK, "recur" doesn't mean "apply recursively", it means "happen again". To put your mind at ease, I also don't know a proper verb for recursive action in any other language. The idea is just too weird for natural languages, and any word chosen is usually a kludge.
This is where we actually have to invent a word, and "recurse" is already a domestic animal in programmers' circles. My wish is that words for new things would be invented, instead of adding yet another meaning to existing words. Ma favorite example for this week is a thread which appeared yesterday "...tender questions", where the author has "a tender document" and feels "uneasy about it". I've looked up the dictionary, and tender, as an adjective, has at least eight meanings, all of them revolving around fragility and softness. It took me some time to understand that it was "tender" in the sense "related to a proposal to buy at a specified price". We need new words, not more overload on existing ones.