Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!gatech!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!webber From: webber@aramis.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: tail end of tail recursion? (was: Re: Basics of Program Design) Message-ID:Date: 4 Jul 88 09:14:44 GMT References: <901@td2cad.intel.com> <3061@rpp386.UUCP> <395@proxftl.UUCP> <12298@mimsy.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 34 In article <12298@mimsy.UUCP>, chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes: < In article <395@proxftl.UUCP< bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells) answers < Bob Webber with: < [tail-recursive strlen deleted] < <... Merely asserting that "any decent compiler would..." is not relevant. <