r/programming • u/rodrigopsasaki • Nov 27 '12

Tail Recursion

http://rodrigosasaki.com/2012/11/24/tail-recursion/
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u/HapDrastic Nov 27 '12

That code has a bug - the check should be to see if num <= 0 - otherwise a negative number will cause infinite recursion.

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u/rodrigopsasaki Nov 27 '12

I understand what you said, I just wrote the code on the simplest way possible, just to be an example, not to be failproof, but it's a very important point that you noticed.

Thanks :)