The Folder Tool That Never Stopped: Base Cases

Find out why the folder tool crashed on one customer's drive, and make every recursive function you write stop: why a bigger stack, catching the error and a depth limit all fall short, and the two rules of a base case that fix it.

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Cheat sheet: The Folder Tool That Never Stopped: Base Cases
Category
Data Structures
Level
Apprentice
Tags
Base Case, data structures, Infinite Recursion, Stack Overflow