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Fortunately you're likely to run out of memory or swap space and it will stop all by itself ๐
tail call optimization wants to know your location
I've been writing software for over 40 years and this is the first I have ever heard of this. Much appreciated.
I'm still trying to grok it, but for anyone playing, here's where I started:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/310974/what-is-tail-call-optimization#310980
i am glad my shitposting was educational
though tbh you're unlikely to ever need this knowledge unless you're heavily into functional programming or golfing or coding interviews or other esoteric arts
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