[m-users.] Tail recursion optimisation

Julien Fischer jfischer at opturion.com
Mon May 18 16:33:32 AEST 2026


On Mon, 18 May 2026 at 16:20, Zoltan Somogyi <zoltan.somogyi at runbox.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 18 May 2026 07:56:22 +0200, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
> > My program (which I can't compile
> > yet) wouldn't work without the tail recursion optimisation. The stack would
> > grow unbounded.
>
> This kind of situation is what the require_tail_recursion pragma was designed for.

It is. Those pragmas are currently undocumented however (at least
their documentation
is currently commented out.)

Julien.


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