Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>: > A tail call *is* a goto. That's how you implement one in assembly > language -- you write a jump instruction instead of a call > instruction. The jump doesn't have to be to the same function.
In functional programming languages you might not even have a call stack. Instead, you specify the program execution through transformations. When you evaluate a program, you repeatedly convert the program text into new programs until no more transformations apply and the execution halts with the result of the computation. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
