From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: recursion to iteration macro
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 19:38:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1rottZ-0005Sl-Hi@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Zf7YLmAIQdC56Wl3@tuxteam.de> (tomas@tuxteam.de)
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Tail -recursion without deepening the stack is a convenience,
and it may seem conceptually trivial, but in implementation
it will ba a substantial redesign. I think it would use up
a lot of developers time, and we are better off spending that
time on things that will helkp Emacs _users_ rather tan
only programmers.
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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-25 23:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-22 22:56 recursion to iteration macro Emanuel Berg
2024-03-23 7:12 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-03-23 10:17 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-03-23 10:30 ` tomas
2024-03-23 10:40 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-03-23 13:25 ` tomas
2024-03-25 23:38 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2024-03-26 5:40 ` tomas
2024-03-28 22:05 ` Richard Stallman
2024-03-29 6:36 ` tomas
2024-03-30 22:37 ` Richard Stallman
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