[PRL] almost tail-calling (was: Re: deeep stack)

[Joe Marshall]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:31 PM, John Clements
<clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
>
> Goodness, Joe, you don't have to tell *me* that.

Yeah, that came out wrong.  Sorry.

> My point is not that Java doesn't need to be tail-calling; it does.
>  Instead, I'm simply pointing out that teaching students to write programs
> in a recursive fashion in Java is not as irresponsible as it's made out to
> be by loopfans.

I agree.

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~jrm