* Re:Tail Calls
@ 2005-03-16 1:39 Marc Hamann
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From: Marc Hamann @ 2005-03-16 1:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
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>I don't understand why the compiler don't do himself those transformations.
>Why is it so hard to take a non-tail-recursive-function and make it a
>tail-recursive-one ?
Because in the general case that would change the intent of the program.
Imagine if you have a sequence of two expressions with side-effects, or
with significant order (e.g. consing a value to a function that returns a
list). Changing the order automatically would have the wrong effect.
Boy, some people want computers to do ALL our thinking. ;-)
Marc
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