What Is Recursion in Software Engineering, and How to Use It? (With PHP Examples)

How to use recursion in Software Engineering

Tomasz Dobrowolski
Level Up Coding
Published in
5 min readApr 12, 2023

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Recursion is a Software Engineering technique that appears more complex than it needs to be.

Yet when used correctly, it can make your code look cleaner and easier to read.

What is Recursion?

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