merari42@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 7 months agoSome of my iterations are delightfully recursivelemmy.worldimagemessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1523arrow-down110
arrow-up1513arrow-down1imageSome of my iterations are delightfully recursivelemmy.worldmerari42@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square56fedilink
minus-squareaubeynarf@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoNot just calls to self - any time a function’s last operation is to call another function and return its result (a tail call), tail call elimination can convert it to a goto/jump.
Not just calls to self - any time a function’s last operation is to call another function and return its result (a tail call), tail call elimination can convert it to a goto/jump.