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Re:URLs in C (2011) by piscisaureus on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @03:17PM (#24992659)
This is the first time I've heard about a language called C--, thank you for that.

The concept is not so unique as you might think tho; the more commonly used term is "tail call".

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Re:URLs in C (2011) by uryga on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @07:05PM (#24994388)
i always thought "tail call" means a function call that can be optimized in this way (located in a tail position), not the act of call-by-jumping itself. both uses make sense though

re: C--, i think it's mostly used as a compiler IR. (notably in Haskell's GHC)

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