Top "Tail-recursion" questions

How can I express a factorial n! with an F# function, recursive or otherwise?

A factorial of a natural number (any number greater or equal than 0) is that number multiplied by the factorial of …

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Does PHP optimize tail recursion?

I wrote a small piece of code that I believe should have succeeded if tail recursion was optimized, however it …

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Generate tail call opcode

Out of curiosity I was trying to generate a tail call opcode using C#. Fibinacci is an easy one, so …

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iPhone dev -- performSelector:withObject:afterDelay or NSTimer?

To repeat a method call (or message send, I guess the appropriate term is) every x seconds, is it better …

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Are there problems that cannot be written using tail recursion?

Tail recursion is an important performance optimisation stragegy in functional languages because it allows recursive calls to consume constant stack (…

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How to do recursion in anonymous fn, without tail recursion

How do I do recursion in an anonymous function, without using tail recursion? For example (from Vanderhart 2010, p 38): (defn power […

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