Not Lisp again....

Re:Not Lisp again.... by ced on Friday March 06, 2009 @03:15AM (#505294)

Funny how tail recursion pretty much has "cute optimization hack" written all over it. It really doesn't feel at home in a first lecture on programming.

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Re:Not Lisp again.... by dfox on Friday March 06, 2009 @07:18AM (#505407)

Tail recursion has profound theoretical implications, so it belongs there. If your language is properly tail-recursive it completely changes definition of recursive and iterative.

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