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Re:Should function arguments be reassignable or mutable? by maxxxxx on Monday January 01, 2018 @01:08PM (#16047149)
Does Erlang handle the stack better? In most languages this would blow up if N got big enough.
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Re:Should function arguments be reassignable or mutable? by bearhall on Monday January 01, 2018 @01:38PM (#16047305)
Yes. Erlang has tail recursion which helps prevent that http://learnyousomeerlang.com/recursion
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Re:Should function arguments be reassignable or mutable? by dragonwriter on Monday January 01, 2018 @01:43PM (#16047339)
As the article notes, what Erlang has is Last Call Optimization, this is significantly more general than tail recursion optimization.
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