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Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> writes:
> On 2010年1月13日, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> writes:
>> >
>> > What I meant was how to represent the coupling between the instruction
>> > pointer and the program state in the source code. You can represent
>> > each state as a function so that state transitions are tailcalls.
>>
>> But that often causes contortions as well. You gain a lot more
>> expressive power if "state transitions are calls" merely. Sometimes it
>> is not easy to arrange for a call to get tail.
>
> 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.
-- 
David Kastrup

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