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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 10:39:33 +1200
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Marko Rauhamaa wrote:

> I don't know how recursion makes a difference

It makes a difference because people don't expect frames
to disappear from tracebacks when they're not consciously
doing recursion.

-- 
Greg