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Wouldn’t “inheritance” be a better answer for the software engineer?
“Instantiation” would be my guess.
This is why recursion is bad, folks. It leads to weird results and often fails to properly terminate.
But on the other hand, tail recursion is its own reward!
I like Dependent Injection, myself