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0 pointsrichdougherty3y ago0 comments

It needs to be at the end of the calling function so you can throw the calling function's stack frame away, since it's still in use. Getting rid of the calling stack frame is what proper tail calls is about.

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ape43y ago

I was suggesting something like bash `exec`

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0 pointsrichdougherty3y ago0 comments

It needs to be at the end of the calling function so you can throw the calling function's stack frame away, since it's still in use. Getting rid of the calling stack frame is what proper tail calls is about.

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ape43y ago

I was suggesting something like bash `exec`

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse