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mystery7

Language/Type: Java recursion recursive tracing
Author: Whitaker Brand

For each call to the following method, indicate what console output is produced:

public void mystery7(int n) {
    if (n <= 0) {
        System.out.print("*");
    } else if (n % 2 == 0) {
        System.out.print("(");
        mystery7(n - 1);
        System.out.print(")");
    } else {
        System.out.print("[");
        mystery7(n - 1);
        System.out.print("]");
    }
}
mystery7(0);
mystery7(1);
mystery7(2);
mystery7(4);
mystery7(5);

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