>>> "tl" == "Terry Lambert" wrote:
tl> FWIW: tail-call optimization is when I have a function
tl> that, as it's last thing (perhaps after reordering by
tl> the compiler, as well) calls another function, such
tl> that the return value of the other function is its
tl> return value.
See also:
Debunking the ``Expensive Procedure Call'' Myth or,
Procedure Call Implementations Considered Harmful or,
LAMDBA: The Ultimate GOTO
By Guy Lewis Steele, Jr.
AI memo 443, October 1977, 23 pages
ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/0-499/AIM-443.ps
Regards,
Koshy
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