The stack size can be changed by editing the executable. I have not
tested whether the procedure documented at
http://www.jsoftware.com/release/recurlim.htm still works (I am not
using a windows machine at the moment).

Thanks,

-- 
Raul

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> Recursion on substructures of an argument is not tail recursion. Use
> full recursion for that.
>
> Tail recursion can only occur when the result of the function you are
> calling will be the result of your current evaluation instance.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Raul
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Dabrowski, Andrew John
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> This isn't a complete workaround for tail recursion though.  The while 
>> function
>>
>> F^:test^:_ arg
>>
>>
>> doesn't lend itself e.g. to recursion on substructures of arg.
>>
>> To exercise my J muscles I've been playing around with 3n+1 problem, and I 
>> very quickly ran into stack errors.  Is there a way to expand the stack?
>>
>>
>> On 12/19/2017 06:07 PM, Raul Miller wrote:
>>
>> J's induction operation ( ^: ) is very similar to tail recursion (in terms
>> of data flow) except that it does not have full recursion as one of its
>> failure modes.
>>
>>
>>
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