recursive

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DestroyMenu is recursive, that is, it will destroy the menu and all its submenus.

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  • For many years, the dominant theory in the science of linguistics has been Noam Chomsky's, that all human language is made possible by a universal, recursive (that is to say, allowing of insertions such as this one) grammar, hardwired in our genes.
  • DestroyMenu is recursive, that is, it will destroy the menu and all its submenus. —  AutoHotkey Community
  • The main result is that SPARQL and non-recursive safe Datalog with negation have equivalent expressive power, and hence, by classical results, SPARQL is equivalent from an expressiveness point of view to Relational Algebra. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • ZAC, would be recursive, and he'd share a name with a certain Dr. Smith, who used to curse a robot with epithets like, "You blundering bucket of bolts," and lament, "Oh, the pain, the pain." —  Planet Atheism
  • As of now, Ruby does not support tail recursion optimization, so you either have to write the function in a non-recursive (i.e. iterative) way yourself, or suffer the consequences of a full stack … or use redo! —  RubyCorner
 

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