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From: Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
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Subject: Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 23:55:21 +0300
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Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>:

> On 7/16/2015 3:45 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> Nobody seemed to notice that I just posted a fairly typical tail call
>> function:
>
> Because non-recursive tail calls are completely normal.

I don't know how recursion makes a difference but that one did happen to
be recursive. It could easily have been replaced with a while loop but
there were good aesthetic reasons to leave it recursive.


Marko