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0 pointsyencabulator2mo ago0 comments

For a purely functional language. Scheme is not that.

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anthk2mo ago

And you are wrong because you can define a loop as iterating recursively over a list with just car and cdr.

Can but since other constructs exist that doesn't by itself make TCO "must have"

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0 pointsyencabulator2mo ago0 comments

For a purely functional language. Scheme is not that.

anthk2mo ago

And you are wrong because you can define a loop as iterating recursively over a list with just car and cdr.

Can but since other constructs exist that doesn't by itself make TCO "must have"

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