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From: harlan@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Pete Harlan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Subject: Re: Rephrased question about tail-recursion
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Date: 9 Dec 90 05:01:06 GMT
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stodghil@urd.cs.cornell.edu (Paul Stodghill) writes:

>I want to use a looping
>construct in the intermediate language for these loops, and let call/return
>handle all other procedure calls.

But tail-calls are used for more than just loops -- continuation-
passing style programs, for example, rely on tail recursion.  That's
why it isn't just an implementation concern, it's a language-design
issue.

Pete Harlan
harlan@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu