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From: "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm>
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Subject: Re: BEGIN with multiple AGAINs?
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 08:36:14 -0400
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On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 18:19:21 -0400, Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> wrote:

> Andrew's factorial example demonstrates why having a jump rather
> than a call is not correct.

What!

Andrew's example has the *exact* same issue with RECURSE for which
you cited me for.  If you use a large factorial value in his example,
RECURSE will overflow the stack with numbers to be multiplied long
before the multiplication of the values can occur.


Rod Pemberton