Learn Functional Programming with Elixir

Wrapping Up

We’ve reached the end of another chapter! You’ve learned that recursive functions are the core of repetition in functional programming. Recursion is a big subject. Let’s see what we’ve covered:

• We created recursive functions to solve tasks that need repetition.

• We transformed a collection of data into a new one using recursion.

• We studied the decrease-and-conquer and divide-and-conquer strategies of solving problems.

• We saw how to avoid performance problems using tail-recursive functions.

• We covered strategies to work with unbounded recursion.

• We saw how named functions are simpler than anonymous functions when working with recursion.

With this knowledge, we can face almost any problem that requires a repetition task using functional ...