On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Zsbán Ambrus <[email protected]> wrote:

> IMO as I write most of the loops with the lots of looping builtins
> like rank, insert, and power etc, I rarely use recursion, so it does
> not really matter if the interpreter does tail recursion or not.
>

Whether the language implement TCO does have an impact on the tendency to
use recursion or not(for the fear of stack overflow). That said, I found
Haskell's lazy evaluation having a greater benefit for writing recursive
style function. As writing 'TCOtable' function is not that simple.
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