Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rochester.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rochester!gary From: gary@rochester.UUCP (Gary Cottrell) Newsgroups: net.ai Subject: sloan's reply to benson's reply to sloan's reply to benson's reply Message-ID: <5551@rochester.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Mar-84 23:48:42 EST Article-I.D.: rocheste.5551 Posted: Fri Mar 9 23:48:42 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Mar-84 13:03:32 EST Sender: gary@rocheste.UUCP Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept. Lines: 19 From: Gary CottrellDate: Fri, 9 Mar 1984 14:28 EST From: SLOAN%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA Subject: tail recursion: forwarded reply Gary- Of course, Mr. Benson knows that ALL time bombs are, by definition, waiting to go off. As to the essentially recursive nature of TCA, I simply note that this view requires a stack of dogs; in my experience stacks of dogs engage in an entirely different form of behavior, which, under the proper parity conditions, is truly recursive. -Ken [If anyone is Really Tired of This, I will stop sending this rather convoluted conversation between two friends of mine who don't know each other but apparently should -gwc]