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Re: Limbo

philw@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> 
> >Is Limbo tail recursive?
> no
Limbo does not allow you to get the address of a local variable and the
language is automatic GC'd. A tail call is the last call in a function.
This would allow the compiler to know exactly when to empty the stack
frame. With all this said I wonder why Limbo is not tail recursive...