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Re: Calling a function with undefined symbol


From: tomas
Subject: Re: Calling a function with undefined symbol
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2022 21:47:50 +0100

On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 08:57:59PM +0100, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> <tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:
> 
> > Now would that be more fun if Elisp did tail call optimization?
> >
> > Let me try in Guile:
> >
> >   scheme@(guile-user)> ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x)))
> >
> > Yes, it is :)
> 
> Impressive - it just produces a bit of heat over time, but it doesn't
> consume memory.

To be more precise, it always consumes the same memory. Perhaps the
bits become somewhat worn out in that place ;-P

Cheers
-- 
t

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