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On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
It shouldn't be infinite. When the function call accumulates enough
parameters to overflow the stack, it should fail.

Oh wait....

Yes. Sorry for the noise. I had the same thought. Tail calls and overflowing the argument list are two different things/issues. 

So while we have tail calls, this idiom *can* still result in an overflow.... if I understand it correctly.

-Andrew