Re: [stack] disallowing recursive definitions

William Tanksley, Jr scripsit:

> I agree with the facts of what you said, Nowak (although I don't agree
> that this makes concatenative languages "the ultimate GOTO", which
> seems to be the implication of what you wrote), and I disagree with
> you, Cowan, that performing an arbitrary stack shuffle complicates the
> analysis of the tail-call.

Good, because that's the reverse of what I said, which is that to tail-call
an arbitrary function, all you need to do is to execute an arbitrary shuffle
to get the function arguments in the right order -- which is very simple.

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