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Some of my iterations are delightfully recursive (lemmy.world)

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[–] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 4 months ago

Not just calls to self - any time a function’s last operation is to call another function and return its result (a tail call), tail call elimination can convert it to a goto/jump.