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  1. Path: misery.millcomm.com!usenet
  2. From: danhicks@millcomm.com (Dan Hicks)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.apl
  4. Subject: Re: GOTO controversy
  5. Date: 25 Mar 1996 04:31:27 GMT
  6. Organization: Millennium Communications, Inc.
  7. Message-ID: <4j57iv$nf4@misery.millcomm.com>
  8. References: <314FB5F5.259B@simi.is> <3151B47F.70FD@connix.com> <NICKB.96Mar22141650@abel.harlqn.co.uk>
  9. Reply-To: danhicks@millcomm.com
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  13. In <NICKB.96Mar22141650@abel.harlqn.co.uk>, nickb@harlequin.co.uk (Nick Barnes) writes:
  14. >In article <4isrhqINNpol@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku) writes:
  15. >
  16. >   recursion! ouch! I'd hate to do a no_loop(1,1000000000);
  17. >
  18. >Only because you are not familiar with compilers which perform
  19. >tail-recursion elimination.
  20.  
  21. Which they of course do by converting the recursion to a loop.
  22.  
  23. Dan Hicks
  24. http://www.millcomm.com/~danhicks/
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