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

 def max(xs: List[Int]): Int = xs match {
    case Nil => throw new NoSuchElementException("empty list!")
    case x :: Nil => x
    case x :: tail => if (x > max(tail)) x else max(tail)
  }