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What happens when a method calls itself inside its body?

807603Feb 20 2008 — edited Feb 21 2008
This is a dumb question but stil I am asking it because some how i feel the interviewer who asked me this question was not satisfied by the answer..

Question:

What happens when a method keeps calling itself in its body?

My Answer:

It comes out throwing java.lang.StackOverflowError runtime exception.

What i want to know is from all you JAVA GURUS, is there anything more to this sort of question. Any nuance i am missing here?

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