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On 2010年1月13日, David Kastrup wrote:
> Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> writes:
> >
> > If you implement a state transition as a non-tail-call then you'll get
> > unbounded stack growth.
>
> Not if you can get back to the same state only via a state transition
> implemented as a return.
But my point is that you can replace state transitions like this:
	goto newstate;
with this:
	return newstate()
Other kinds of function calls or returns are not clean state transitions.
Tony.
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