• Corecursion

    Full definition of corecursion

    Noun

    corecursion

    (uncountable)
    1. The dual to recursion, that acts on the computed result, rather than the input.''The natural numbers \N may be defined by corecursion as
    \{0\} \cup \{n+1 | n \in \N\}.''
    1. Programming languages with lazy evaluation support corecursion so that the programmer can refer to infinite objects.

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