From: Mariano Kamp <mariano.kamp@...>
Date: 2006-10-04T05:32:01+09:00
Subject: Re: "Succinctness is Power", by Paul Graham

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On Oct 3, 2006, at 10:22 PM, Christian Neukirchen wrote:

>>
>> Well ... Ruby has closures and continuations, but does it have the  
>> third
>> hallmark of Scheme -- efficient tail recursion?
>
> Implementation detail.  But I really wish it did...

I was always wondering what this really means? Is it just the  
transformation of recursive calls at the end of a method into loops  
and therefore killing the stack overhead of recursions?

Cheers,
Mariano
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