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TCO means all calls in tail position are optimised, not just the self-recursive ones.
Personally I find loop/recur ugly. It's a partial hack around the lack of TCO.
Though I prefer looping statements like Common Lisp's ITERATE, whose design I like a lot...
https://common-lisp.net/project/iterate/doc/index.html
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TCO means all calls in tail position are optimised, not just the self-recursive ones.
Personally I find loop/recur ugly. It's a partial hack around the lack of TCO.
Though I prefer looping statements like Common Lisp's ITERATE, whose design I like a lot...
https://common-lisp.net/project/iterate/doc/index.html