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Comment by creata

5 hours ago

There isn't a killer use case, because tail calls (to yourself or to siblings) can always be easily converted to a loop, and the loop is more idiomatic in most mainstream languages.

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jhgb  3 hours ago

...and that costs you code modularity and separate compilation. Why lose them when you don't have to?

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