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Listing 1. Iteration over a sorted binary tree using recursive descent in an enumeration method. public interface KeyValueTask { void apply(String key, String value ...

In the real world you will almost never use recursion. You'll use loops with known bounds because the worst case for everything will be known and controlled. There are a handful of guys working in ...