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Re:Mindset Shifts for Functional Programming by illiarian on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @11:24AM (#35455772)
Unless I'm mistaken, Erlang's compiler rewrites all recursion that explicitly returns a function call into tail-call, and eliminates all the stack in between
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Re:Mindset Shifts for Functional Programming by timmg on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:34PM (#35457674)
> all recursion that explicitly returns a function call

Yeah, but that's not "all recursion".

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