Re: Ah, those uninitiated people...

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, David Kastrup wrote:
> Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> writes:
> >
> > If you implement a state transition as a non-tail-call then you'll get
> > unbounded stack growth.
>
> Not if you can get back to the same state only via a state transition
> implemented as a return.

But my point is that you can replace state transitions like this:

	goto newstate;

with this:

	return newstate()

Other kinds of function calls or returns are not clean state transitions.

Tony.
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