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From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
Subject: Re: srfi-13 string-any tail call
Date: 23 Dec 2004 05:16:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ekhhr6n9.fsf@zagadka.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r7likolm.fsf@zip.com.au>

Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> writes:

> Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> >
> > Yes.  It would be nice in general to have a new kind of 'trampoline'
> > subr that returns a function+args to call in a tail-recursive way.
> 
> Or func+args in some new magic type, so a subr can return either a
> value or a new place to goto.

Hmm, a value can be returned by using 'identity' as the function to
tail-call, but which method is more efficient is probably hard to say.
 
> I was wanting `catch' to do a tail call to its handler so the handler
> could recurse to continue on the rest of some data.

That would be very nice.

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      reply	other threads:[~2004-12-23  4:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-06 21:08 srfi-13 string-any tail call Kevin Ryde
2004-12-22 16:54 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-12-22 21:30   ` Kevin Ryde
2004-12-23  4:16     ` Marius Vollmer [this message]

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