I was working on something the other day where I had two levels of recursion, like this: 
for(1 .. 10){
  for(a .. c){
    #do something
  }
}

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and then I realised I had to add another level so it was like this: 
for( 1 .. 10 ){
  for( a .. c ){
    for( x .. z ){
      #do something
    }
  }
}

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and I started thinking, is it possible to write code in perl where you could recurse as many times as required? In other words, could you write a sub that would work like this: 
do_my_recursion('1 .. 10');
  # or
do_my_recursion('1 .. 10','a .. c');
  # or
do_my_recursion('1 .. 10','a .. c','x .. y');
  # and so on

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and if so how?

I don't actually need the answer to this question in any way, I should say, I'm just wondering about it as a purely theoretical thing.


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=~y~b-v~a-z~s; print

In reply to Arbitrary Levels Of Recursion? by Cody Pendant

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