From: Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: tail recursion hack in Emacs Lisp?
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 18:23:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uzn5z6hw9.fsf@ID-87814.user.uni-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: u7jt46leg.fsf@ID-87814.user.uni-berlin.de
Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de> writes:
[`iterate' macro with code-walker]
>
> So my question is: Can anybody think of a case where this approach
> would break?
Silly me. The usual case for breaking such things would apply:
(iterate fact ((n 10)
(r 1))
(if (= n 1)
r
(funcall (intern "fact") (1- n) (* n r))))
Not to mention `eval'.
:-( :-( :-(
Oliver
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-16 15:07 tail recursion hack in Emacs Lisp? Oliver Scholz
2004-07-16 16:23 ` Oliver Scholz [this message]
2004-07-16 16:42 ` Oliver Scholz
2004-07-16 16:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-07-16 17:37 ` Oliver Scholz
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