Backwards spelling using recursion

Question

Why can’t I just use break in the code? (See comment) I mean, the print function is somewhere else anyways. Why do I have to return a string that should actually empty by then?
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Answer 1

break is used to stop a loop.
So you can't use break because thats not a loop statement. It is if block.