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From: hieb@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Robert Hieb)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Subject: What is Scheme
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Date: 29 Aug 90 17:03:25 GMT
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Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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Just to make sure it is not forgotten, let me add "proper treatment of
tail-recursion" to the list of Scheme essentials.  It is essential to
keeping control in Scheme limited to procedure call and return,
continuation invocation, and conditional branching (the last of which
is least).

Bob Hieb