On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 01:45:35PM +0200, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
> Alex Shinn writes:
> > Some would indeed argue it would [be a bad thing to use tail
> > calls in when], since the whole loop is dependent on side-effects
> > (but that's the same argument against unless in the first place).
>
> That might be reading from some source and writing in some sink, which
> are side-effects. The point, though, is that it would not be like
> Scheme to have "unless" in the language but not being allowed to rely
> on bounded space in the above.

An emphatic "+1" from me!

Cheers,
Peter
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