Return statement in recursive function call

 A return statement passes a value back to the immediate caller of the current function's call-frame. In the case of recursion, this immediate caller can be another invocation of that same function.
In most languages, if you don't use the return value of a function you called (recursively or not), either that return value gets discarded or it is a diagnosable error. There are some languages where the return value of the last function call gets automatically re-used as the return value of the current function invocation, but they don't differentiate between normal and recursive function calls.

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