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Re: Function Cell Follow-up



    Date: Mon, 24 Feb 86 20:28:33 EST
    From: Jonathan A Rees <JAR@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU>
    
        Date: Mon, 24 Feb 86 15:56 EST
        From: David C. Plummer <DCP at SCRC-QUABBIN.ARPA>
    
        Is tail recursion REQUIRED of Scheme implementations, or is just in all
        the papers because it is easy to do in most Scheme implementations.
    
    It's absolutely as essential as garbage collection. [...]

I recall reading some old Lisp Machine papers that suggested
garbage collection should be avoided (DDI = Don't Do It!)  :-) :-)

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