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by qwertyuiop924 3625 days ago
Scheme and Haskell have other primitives that take the place of while and goto.

But yes, using more expressive match types or parameters is a good idea. As for providing the result as an argument, that can be a good pattern, but isn't always practical. Note what I said in my original comment about using your own discretion.
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eru 3624 days ago
They don't have `other primitives': they have function calls. Most languages have function calls these days.
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qwertyuiop924 3624 days ago
Yes, I read LTUI and LTUD. But in most languages, function calls and loops don't have the same semantics. I'll call that a different loop primitive.
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eru 3617 days ago
For C, this seems to be implementation defined.

(At least for C as encountered in the wild, I don't know about C the standard.)

Most modern C compilers support tail call optimization.

I don't know about `most languages'. Eg I know Java on the JVM doesn't do tail call optimization. Lots of languages probably do not require TCO of their implementations, though.

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