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Re:All About Recursion and Tail Calls in JavaScript by cpeterso on Saturday May 13, 2017 @06:54PM (#14333408)
JavaScript TCO can't be feature detected so how do you know when tail calls are safe to use in front end or library code that can run on a variety of clients?
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Re:All About Recursion and Tail Calls in JavaScript by ecma_horse on Saturday May 13, 2017 @08:52PM (#14333710)
You don't. Assume you don't get it. Right now, chances are you don't get it anyway.
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