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by yencabulator 174 days ago
For a purely functional language. Scheme is not that.

https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/while-do...
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anthk 174 days ago
And you are wrong because you can define a loop as iterating recursively over a list with just car and cdr.
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yencabulator 173 days ago
Can but since other constructs exist that doesn't by itself make TCO "must have"
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