[...]
Which seems to me to be only one step removed from the apocryphal
definition in the mythical dictionary of computer terms:
"Recursion: see recursion."
Not so apocryphal and mythical as all that. See the Jargon File entry
for recursion. (
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/R/recursion.html,
for those who don't want to bother walking the links from
http://www.jargon.org/ for themselves.)
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