Where Do the Waiting Calls Wait? The Call Stack

Trace any recursive function by hand, and see why recursion that goes too deep runs out of room: how a program keeps every waiting call's own values and the way back to it, which a single variable or a single bookmark can't do.

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Cheat sheet: Where Do the Waiting Calls Wait? The Call Stack
Category
Data Structures
Level
Apprentice
Tags
Call Stack (data-structures), data structures, Recursion (data-structures), Stack Frame