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corecursion

noun

Etymology

From co- + recursion.

  1. borrowed from recursiō
  2. prefixed as corecursion — “co + recursion”

Definitions

  1. The dual to recursion, that acts on the computed result, rather than the input.

    • The natural numbers #92;N may be defined by corecursion as #92;#123;0#92;#125;#92;cup#92;#123;n#43;1
    • Programming languages with lazy evaluation support corecursion so that the programmer can refer to infinite objects.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for corecursion. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA