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		ragnese on Jan 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Tail Call Optimization Works Yes. You generally just should not write a recursive function in a language without TCO/TCE.

jdmichal on Jan 8, 2021 [–]

Recursion is nothing but a loop with a stack. So yes, can certainly rewrite things that way, but all you're doing is trading the stack for a stack structure on the heap.

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