Is Squeak tail recursive?
Dwight Hughes
dwighth at ipa.net
Fri Jan 29 18:17:36 UTC 1999
Vassili Bykov wrote:
>
> Executive summary: 1) "tail recursion" is a misnomer, "tail call" is a more
> exact name(your example, Lex, is still tail-callable); 2) it is possible in
> Smalltalk; 3) none of the existing Smalltalks do it.
IIRC Smalltalk MT ( http://www.objectconnect.com/ ) can be told to
compile code as tail callable -- but this is to native code.
-- Dwight
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