Software Assurance Reference Dataset

Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jul 21 15:57:08 PDT 2014


On 07/22/2014 12:10 AM, bearophile wrote:
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>> Except for the fact that it has bounded stack size which is a useful
>> property by itself and not only for tailrecursive functions.
>
> Yes, that's why I have said that a @continuation is a more general
> solution than @tailrec.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

(Continuations and a tail calls are not the same kind of thing.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation#First-class_continuations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimited_continuation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_call


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