Comment by CodeArtisan

5 years ago

Any functional programming language shall have TCO since statements are forbidden (everything is a function).

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lmm  5 years ago

Or you could avoid (semantically) having a stack at all, as Haskell does.

  • bjoli  5 years ago

    I don't see how that could be done... Is it a result of laziness?

    • jlouis  5 years ago

      You just push the stack into the heap, and don't have a specific area which is the stack area. It's pretty common as a technique if you have something such as call-with-current-continuation.

      The "stack" is still there in this case, but spread out over multiple heap blocks.

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