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Re:Tail recursion, but modulo cons by melony on Monday February 28, 2022 @06:30PM (#30506690)
Is this similar to Racket's stack replacement infinite tail recursion mechanism?
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Re:Tail recursion, but modulo cons by ska on Monday February 28, 2022 @06:38PM (#30506794)
Isn't that just standard TCO (scheme, unusually, mandates this in the standard)?
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Re:Tail recursion, but modulo cons by melony on Monday February 28, 2022 @07:09PM (#30507133)
No, Racket's work for non tail call recursion too. The standard recursive factorial won't overflow in Racket.

According to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30420605

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