> On Apr 25, 2017, at 4:05 PM, brendan <bren...@cannells.com> wrote:
>
> Indeed; I should have clarified that I didn't mean only recursion per se. Not
> the first time I've stumbled on that misnomer.
>
> On Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 6:53:59 PM UTC-4, Robby Findler wrote:
>> I think the question is about non-tail calls and limits on them.
FWIW you can definitely trigger a stack overflow with non-tail calls. In
DrRacket, go to Racket → Limit Memory and change the limit to 8 MB. Then try
this:
(define (sum n)
(if (zero? n)
n
(+ n (sum (sub1 n)))))
(sum 100000000) ; boom
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