以下是我的完全递归实现的双向图的广度优先搜索的代码，而不使用循环和队列。

public class Graph { public int V; public LinkedList<Integer> adj[]; Graph(int v) { V = v; adj = new LinkedList[v]; for (int i=0; i<v; ++i) adj[i] = new LinkedList<>(); } void addEdge(int v,int w) { adj[v].add(w); adj[w].add(v); } public LinkedList<Integer> getAdjVerted(int vertex) { return adj[vertex]; } public String toString() { String s = ""; for (int i=0;i<adj.length;i++) { s = s +"\n"+i +"-->"+ adj[i] ; } return s; } } //BFS IMPLEMENTATION public static void recursiveBFS(Graph graph, int vertex,boolean visited[], boolean isAdjPrinted[]) { if (!visited[vertex]) { System.out.print(vertex +" "); visited[vertex] = true; } if(!isAdjPrinted[vertex]) { isAdjPrinted[vertex] = true; List<Integer> adjList = graph.getAdjVerted(vertex); printAdjecent(graph, adjList, visited, 0,isAdjPrinted); } } public static void recursiveBFS(Graph graph, List<Integer> vertexList, boolean visited[], int i, boolean isAdjPrinted[]) { if (i < vertexList.size()) { recursiveBFS(graph, vertexList.get(i), visited, isAdjPrinted); recursiveBFS(graph, vertexList, visited, i+1, isAdjPrinted); } } public static void printAdjecent(Graph graph, List<Integer> list, boolean visited[], int i, boolean isAdjPrinted[]) { if (i < list.size()) { if (!visited[list.get(i)]) { System.out.print(list.get(i)+" "); visited[list.get(i)] = true; } printAdjecent(graph, list, visited, i+1, isAdjPrinted); } else { recursiveBFS(graph, list, visited, 0, isAdjPrinted); } }

我找不到一种完全递归的方法(没有任何辅助数据结构)。但是如果队列Q是通过引用传递的，那么你可以得到下面这个愚蠢的尾部递归函数:

BFS(Q)
{
  if (|Q| > 0)
     v <- Dequeue(Q)
     Traverse(v)
     foreach w in children(v)
        Enqueue(Q, w)    

     BFS(Q)
}

如果使用数组来支持二叉树，则可以用代数方法确定下一个节点。如果I是一个节点，那么它的子节点可以在2i + 1(左节点)和2i + 2(右节点)处找到。节点的下一个邻居由i + 1给出，除非i是2的幂

下面是在数组支持的二叉搜索树上实现宽度优先搜索的伪代码。这假设一个固定大小的数组，因此一个固定深度的树。它将查看无父节点，并可能创建难以管理的大堆栈。

bintree-bfs(bintree, elt, i)
    if (i == LENGTH)
        return false

    else if (bintree[i] == elt)
        return true

    else 
        return bintree-bfs(bintree, elt, i+1)        

下面使用Haskell对我来说似乎很自然。在树的各个层次上递归迭代(这里我将名字收集到一个大的有序字符串中，以显示树的路径):

data Node = Node {name :: String, children :: [Node]}
aTree = Node "r" [Node "c1" [Node "gc1" [Node "ggc1" []], Node "gc2" []] , Node "c2" [Node "gc3" []], Node "c3" [] ]
breadthFirstOrder x = levelRecurser [x]
    where levelRecurser level = if length level == 0
                                then ""
                                else concat [name node ++ " " | node <- level] ++ levelRecurser (concat [children node | node <- level])

下面是递归BFS的Scala 2.11.4实现。为了简洁起见，我牺牲了尾部调用优化，但是TCOd版本非常相似。参见@snv的帖子。

import scala.collection.immutable.Queue

object RecursiveBfs {
  def bfs[A](tree: Tree[A], target: A): Boolean = {
    bfs(Queue(tree), target)
  }

  private def bfs[A](forest: Queue[Tree[A]], target: A): Boolean = {
    forest.dequeueOption exists {
      case (E, tail) => bfs(tail, target)
      case (Node(value, _, _), _) if value == target => true
      case (Node(_, l, r), tail) => bfs(tail.enqueue(List(l, r)), target)
    }
  }

  sealed trait Tree[+A]
  case class Node[+A](data: A, left: Tree[A], right: Tree[A]) extends Tree[A]
  case object E extends Tree[Nothing]
}

下面是一个BFS递归遍历Python实现，用于没有周期的图。

def bfs_recursive(level):
    '''
     @params level: List<Node> containing the node for a specific level.
    '''
    next_level = []
    for node in level:
        print(node.value)
        for child_node in node.adjency_list:
            next_level.append(child_node)
    if len(next_level) != 0:
        bfs_recursive(next_level)


class Node:
    def __init__(self, value):
        self.value = value
        self.adjency_list = []