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<h2><a href="./">Go by Example</a>: Recursion</h2>
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<p>Go supports
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion_(computer_science)"><em>recursive functions</em></a>.
Here&rsquo;s a classic factorial example.</p>
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<pre class="chroma"><span class="kn">package</span> <span class="nx">main</span>
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<pre class="chroma"><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="s">&#34;fmt&#34;</span>
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<p>This <code>fact</code> function calls itself until it reaches the
base case of <code>fact(0)</code>.</p>
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<span class="kd">func</span> <span class="nf">fact</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">n</span> <span class="kt">int</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="kt">int</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="nx">n</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">0</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="mi">1</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="nx">n</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="nf">fact</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">n</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
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<pre class="chroma"><span class="kd">func</span> <span class="nf">main</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<span class="nx">fmt</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nf">Println</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nf">fact</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">7</span><span class="p">))</span>
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<p>Closures can also be recursive, but this requires the
closure to be declared with a typed <code>var</code> explicitly
before it&rsquo;s defined.</p>
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<span class="kd">var</span> <span class="nx">fib</span> <span class="kd">func</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">n</span> <span class="kt">int</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="kt">int</span>
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<pre class="chroma"> <span class="nx">fib</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="kd">func</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">n</span> <span class="kt">int</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="kt">int</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="nx">n</span> <span class="p">&lt;</span> <span class="mi">2</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="nx">n</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="nf">fib</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">n</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="nf">fib</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">n</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<p>Since <code>fib</code> was previously declared in <code>main</code>, Go
knows which function to call with <code>fib</code> here.</p>
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<span class="p">}</span>
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<pre class="chroma"> <span class="nx">fmt</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nf">Println</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nf">fib</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">7</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
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<pre class="chroma"><span class="gp">$</span> go run recursion.go
<span class="go">5040
</span><span class="go">13</span></pre>
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