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clhodapptoday at 3:32 AM1 replyview on HN

No algorithm requires tail-call elimination in a general-purpose language with imperative mutability. It's just another way to express iteration.


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spider-mariotoday at 8:56 AM

Sure, but mutual recursion might require `goto` for example. Or an explicit state machine.

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