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Re: um, maybe this is a silly question

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From: Martyn Thomas Quigley
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 03:23
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smith@sctc.com (Rick Smith) writes:

>Most problem solving that people routinely do shouldn't require the
>level of engineering required to convert recursion into interation.

Don't Lisp compilers routinely convert tail recursion source into 
iterative code?  I always thought so, but...should we do it ourselves?

Martyn
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