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Answer: Can I make recursive calls to subroutines?
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Q&A > subroutines > Can I make recursive calls to subroutines? contributed by chromatic

Yes. Perl will even warn you if the recursion stack gets too deep (I'm currently around 200,000 calls). 
use strict;

sub head_for_the_deep {
    my $depth = shift;
    print "Sinking to level $depth.\n";
    head_for_the_deep($depth + 1);
}

head_for_the_deep(0);

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