>  >Problem #2 is "how do we support recursion?" They chose the solution
>  >"you don't". Which seems reasonable; how many people actually want to
>  >use that feature? Do we really want to complicate the interface further
>  >just to make those guys happy?
>
> The function definition can use the standard Excel =IF(,,) function
> to make a conditional result to stop the recursion.
> The rest would be provided by the standard mechanism of function calls.
>

I think Andy was talking about how Excel would support recursion, not 
how a user would implement a recusive function.  Currently Excel would 
throw a "Circular reference" error.


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