Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!mikel From: mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins) Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Is Allegro CL tail-recursive? Keywords: Macintosh, Allegro Message-ID: <44828@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 14 Sep 90 22:42:34 GMT References: <4836@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Distribution: usa Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 5 Macintosh Allegro Common Lisp performs tail-recursion optimization if and only if the value of the global variable *nx-tailcalls* is not nil. By default, the value of that variable is t. --me