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:Agreed. I think this strikes home. You could stuff that 'recur' function into some library, and use it whenever needed, right? --[[User:Abu|Abu]] 07:46, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
:Concerning "recursion implies a function", it depends on what you consider a function. The GOSOB in the Basic code snippet is not really a function call. That's why I used the term "call" instead of "function". A Forth solution would involve two or three new immediate control words, similar to BEGIN/WHILE/REPEAT. In the PicoLisp version (and also in your second Ruby version, if I understand it right), the first pass through the 'recur' body does not actually involve a function call, but it is executed in the context of the surrounding function. --[[User:Abu|Abu]] 07:57, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
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