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[–] Ebber@lemmings.world 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I removed the tail recursion for you:

private book IsEven(int number) {
    if(number > 1) return IsEven(number - 2) == true;
    if(number == 0) return true; 
    if(number == 2) return false;
}
[–] Ferk@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What'd be the result for IsEven(1)?

[–] Ebber@lemmings.world 5 points 3 days ago

Stack overflow

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I didn't get this.

Why return book? Does that have some Blizzard reference?
And why would number == 2return false? This is a function for getting true when the number is even, right?

[–] Ebber@lemmings.world 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Haha, you're right. I've now learned two things:

  1. I should not write code on a mobile
  2. I should not become a proof reader

At the end of the day i just wanted the function to be worse, by causing stack overflows