Tail recursion to while iteration in 2 easy steps

[Mark Janssen]

>> That's fine. My point was: you can't at the same time have full
>> dynamicity *and* procedural optimizations (like tail call opt).
>> Everybody should be clear about the trade-off.
>
> Your wrong. Full dynamics is not in contradiction with tail call
> optimisation. Scheme has already done it for years. You can rebind
> names to other functions in scheme and scheme still has working
> tail call optimisatiosn.

Yeah, and this is where two models of computation have been conflated,
creating magical effects, confusing everybody.  I challenge you to get
down to the machine code in scheme and formally describe how it's
doing both.
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MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington