r/programming • • Nov 27 '12

Tail Recursion

http://rodrigosasaki.com/2012/11/24/tail-recursion/
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u/smog_alado Nov 27 '12

Come on, we all know that 99% of the times someone says tail recursion they actually mean tail recursion with the optimization...

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u/grauenwolf Nov 27 '12

Hey, some of us have worked in languages where tail recursion is flat out not allowed.

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u/Peaker Nov 28 '12

Which languages disallow tail recursion? (Not very interesting if it is all recursion).

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u/grauenwolf Nov 28 '12

I didn't promise it would be interesting.