Tail recursion to while iteration in 2 easy steps

Piet van Oostrum piet at vanoostrum.org
Mon Oct 7 22:45:17 EDT 2013


Mark Janssen <dreamingforward at gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

Which two models of computation are you talking about? And what magica; effects? AFAIK there is no magic in computer science, although every sufficiently advanced ...
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