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Re:ChrysaLisp by lvh on Monday January 13, 2020 @11:31AM (#22035842)
Yes, but you have to be explicit that it's a recur by using the recur special form. (I'm not convinced that matters, but some people get hung up on it.)
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Re:ChrysaLisp by holtalanm on Monday January 13, 2020 @02:10PM (#22037521)
yeah, there is special syntax for it in other jvm languages that support tail recursion, as well (kotlin).

i honestly don't know how they would do it otherwise, really. I actually liked the `recur` syntax of clojure when i was playing around with it a few years ago, though.

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Re:ChrysaLisp by lvh on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @10:48PM (#22051620)
I don't see why the compiler couldn't be aware of the function it's compiling and special-cases that tail recursion; that's what every other compiler does.
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