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From: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: named-let
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2021 18:03:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2r1mu11qd.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwv1reuf4ip.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org

On Sat, Jan 09 2021, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> Is TCO always used (like in Scheme) or in which cases is it used or not used?
>
> It's basically never used.  It's only applied for the particular case of
> tail recursive calls to functions defined by `cl-labels` and only for
> those calls that are "self-recursive" (i.e. come from within the code of
> that function).

Is there hope for general contification? So that things like

(defun my-even? (x)
  (cl-labels ((even? (x) (or (= x 0) (odd? (1- x))))
              (odd?  (x) (or (= x 1) (even? (1- x)))))
    (even? x)))

are translated to a bunch of gotos and no lambdas.

Helmut




  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-09 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-09  1:43 named-let Stefan Monnier
2021-01-09  8:58 ` named-let tomas
2021-01-09 16:01   ` named-let Joost Kremers
2021-01-09 21:48     ` named-let Stefan Monnier
2021-01-09 15:23 ` named-let Tomas Hlavaty
2021-01-09 16:44   ` named-let Stefan Monnier
2021-01-09 17:03     ` Helmut Eller [this message]
2021-01-09 18:43       ` named-let Stefan Monnier
2021-01-09 18:47     ` named-let Tomas Hlavaty
2021-01-10 18:49   ` named-let Zhu Zihao
2021-01-11 22:27     ` named-let Tomas Hlavaty
2021-01-11 22:36       ` named-let Stefan Monnier
2021-01-11 22:48         ` named-let Tomas Hlavaty
2021-01-11 22:50         ` named-let Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-01-11 23:10           ` named-let Stefan Monnier
2021-01-11 23:28             ` named-let Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-01-11 23:57               ` named-let Stefan Monnier
2021-01-12  9:24                 ` named-let Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-01-12 18:07                   ` named-let Stefan Monnier
2021-01-12 18:50                     ` named-let Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-01-12  9:13             ` named-let Helmut Eller
2021-01-13  8:11         ` named-let Zhu Zihao
2021-01-13 14:01           ` named-let Stefan Monnier
2021-01-11 22:40       ` named-let Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-01-11 22:51         ` named-let Tomas Hlavaty
2021-01-11 23:04           ` named-let Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-01-12  0:12             ` named-let Tomas Hlavaty
2021-01-20 19:44 ` named-let Stefan Monnier

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