How to find the largest element in a list of integers recursively?

Question

I\'m trying to write a function which will recursively find the largest element in a list of integers. I know how to do this in Java, but can\'t understand how to do this at Sca

Answer 1

With tail-recursion

  @tailrec
  def findMax(x: List[Int]):Int =  x match {
    case a :: Nil => a
    case a :: b :: c =>  findMax( (if (a > b) a else b) ::c)
  }