[gambit-list] xkcd: Functional

Marc Feeley feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Fri Sep 27 14:11:34 EDT 2013


On 2013-09-27, at 10:39 AM, Bradley Lucier <lucier at math.purdue.edu> wrote:

> http://xkcd.com/1270/

Cute.  However, tail-recursion is not a feature of functional programming languages in general.  In fact, Scheme (and assembler!) are the only languages I know where tail-recursion is guaranteed.

Marc




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