On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 8:06 PM, Jon Zeppieri <zeppi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > OCaml does handle tail calls properly. But proper tails calls are not > the subject of this discussion. The original post was explicitly about > non-tail calls and how, in Racket, you cannot exhaust the stack > without exhausting all of the memory available to the program. > (Whereas in OCaml you can, because it uses a fixed-size stack.) >
How common is it to have a fixed-size stack? I thought it was normal practice for the heap and stack to be on opposite ends of memory and to grow towards each other, so that either can use all available memory. Justin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
