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		sesm on Feb 2, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Running Lisp in Production (2020) I don’t think TCO is a big deal, Clojure has loop-recur when you need it

_19qg on Feb 2, 2022 [–]

That's self recursion (Lisp has a low-level Go To as a building block).

TCO is a bit more general. Any tail call then is just a kind of jump.

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