Comment by Starman_Jones
9 hours ago
There is no recursive program that can't also be created by adding in more conditionals. It's turtles the whole way down.
9 hours ago
There is no recursive program that can't also be created by adding in more conditionals. It's turtles the whole way down.
You can emulate recursion with iteration and a push-down stack. If it doesn’t either recurse or offer both iterations (loops) and something that can act as a stack (at least an array or so) then it’s not Turing complete though. I have yet to see a stack or user-manipulable arrays in CSS.
You need unbounded recursion. Conditionals alone can’t do that. If you have some kind of conditional go to/jump if expression that’s a different matter.
You can't add all possible conditionals for every kind of loop/iteration, such as dynamic and infinite.