constantly.at » Lisp http://constantly.at Infrequently updated Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:59:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 On tail recursion http://constantly.at/2009/05/on-tail-recursion/ http://constantly.at/2009/05/on-tail-recursion/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 12:54:29 +0000 rudi http://constantly.at/?p=80 Like many, I was not very interested in tail recursion – it’s just a way of writing a loop in a more verbose way, right?  Luckily, Joe Marshall wrote a series of blog posts that made me reconsider my view – while self-calls might “only” be loops, mutual, never-ending tail-calls implement continuation-passing style, state machines etc.  Glad I got one more erroneous belief out of my system!

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