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		drob518 13 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A tail-call interpreter in (nightly) Rust Clojure’s “recur” form works similarly in that it’s guaranteed to be tail recursive, and if it isn’t the compiler will throw an exception.

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eru 3 hours ago [–]

But I guess it's only works for functions that just call themselves? That's nice, but a very limited subset of TCO.

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