Using Recursion to raise a base to its exponent - C++

Question

I simply want to write some code that makes use of recursion of functions to raise a base to its power. I know that recursion is not the most right way to do things in C++,

Answer 1

Your problem lies here

if (exponent > 0)
    return 1;
else if (exponent = 0)

firstly, you've inverted the conditional (if the exponent is equal to zero, it should return), secondly, you are assigning and not comparing with the second if.