Re: Where do you want to go tomorrow?

Monday, 6 July 1998

        Holger Schauer <schauer(a)coling.uni-freiburg.de&gt; writes:

...
  ms> (Note that the reverse is not generally possible, since
Common
  ms> Lisp is not properly tail-recursive and does not support control
  ms> abstraction.)

 AFAIK, tail-recursion is not required by the (ANSI) CL standard. 
Correct.

...
 Is it part of RSR(45) ? This would be very surprising news to me.

Yes, it is.  I don't know why this is surprising, as it is one of
Scheme's really big selling points.  A correct Scheme implementation
_must_ be properly tail-recursive.  Scheme programmers write using
idioms that expect this of their language implementation.

-Justin

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