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Call

A call is the invocation of a function or method.

Related concepts:  FunctionMethodReturn

Closest Wikipedia entry:  Subroutine

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Types and Programming Languages - Section 5.1

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BaseCaseNotNeeded
Recursive computations do not necessarily need a base case

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