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#X text 170 17 A tutorial on recursion in Gem;
#X text 170 37 (GPL) 2007 Claude Heiland-Allen <claudiusmaximus@goto10.org>
;
#X text 170 77 A common idiom in Gem is to use the [repeat] object
found in the Zexy library \, to generate multiple copies of the same
object. Let's try using it to make our spiral.;
#X obj 14 123 repeat 64;
#X text 170 127 And indeed \, it works well. But a spiral is a linear
structure \, without branches. Iteration has solved one problem \,
only to present us with another: what if we want a branching structure?
;
#X text 170 187 Recursion is an elegant solution to this problem.;
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