31 Jan
2002
31 Jan
'02
11:29 p.m.
"Andrew C. Greenberg" werdna@mucow.com wrote: Not only that -- how, exactly, is this continuation example an example of a tail recursion? Certainly, its been decades since my A-exams, but as I recall, a tail recursion is generally defined as a recursive call in a tail context.
No. TRO is a misnomer, it refers to tail CALL optimisation. The technique turns _any_ tail call into a jump, whether it is recursive or not. It's "procedure call = assignment + GOTO".