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Re: Tail Recursion
- To: RPG at SU-AI, lisp-forum at MIT-AI
- Subject: Re: Tail Recursion
- From: Tony Hearn <HEARN at RAND-AI>
- Date: Tue ,15 Dec 81 15:03:00 EDT
- In-reply-to: Your message of 15-Dec-81 1043-PST
There was a function in the old LISP 1.5 compiler called PROGITER which did
tail recursion removal in most cases. I guess that this dates back to the
early sixties. However, Risch's paper is the most complete account of general
LISP recursion removal that I have seen.
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