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0 pointspessimizer9y ago0 comments

Everything in programming is trees. If you write a program that calls functions, that call other functions, that's a tree.

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dalke9y ago

I believe continuation-passing style is an alternative to the direct style you mention. Return-oriented programming and threaded programming may be specific counter-examples.

cjhopman9y ago

Unlikely. Unless a single function corresponds to a possibly infinite set of nodes, most programs are not trees.

pessimizerOP9y ago

A single node is a tree. main() is a tree.

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