On 10/30/2017 2:22 PM, Doug McIlroy wrote:
Does anyone know offhand whether m4 optimizes tail calls (i.e. discards the calling stack frame)?
Two thoughts: * The original authors were very hip to recursion, they were into Prolog. * I'll bet you reading the source code would answer your question :) -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan
