Recursion [parameter x]

 

If this is your first time reading this poem

        Go to the next line, or else go to Label 1

       

         The power of Recursion

         Is the possibility of infinite answers

         From a finite statement

 

        Recursion is a way of solving problems

        Involving a computer routine calling itself

        Potentially any number of times

        Even though the routine 

        May not have any explicit repetitions inside itself

 

        When this poem begins a variable, [parameter x], can be passed into it

        To be used in the poem instead of the term [parameter x]

         So that wherever you see the term  [parameter x] read instead the word

        That replaces it

 

         When you see the statement “Call Recursion”

         Begin reading the poem again

         But replace [parameter x] with whatever word is next to “Call Recursion”

EndIf

 

Label 1

 

If [parameter x] is null

         Then replace [parameter x] with the word “love”

Endif

 

So the answer in this case is [parameter x]

 

If [parameter x] = “love”

         Call Recursion replacing [parameter x] with the word “hate”

Else

   Go to EndPoem

Endif

 

EndPoem

This is a simple, binary recursive poem

It has two outcomes

Both are inconsistent with the logic of this poem