From: "Tagore Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Thanks :). That's great. I don't use goto much, except for a couple of
> very specific situations, so I hadn't read the docs for goto. It
> seems I missed a very interesting beast in goto &NAME. In fact , I
> sent a friend of mine some
Jenda Krynicky wrote:
> I believe they meant "goto &NAME".
> This way perl doesn't create a new record in the call stack every
> time you "call" the _fib().
> As you can see if you comment out the return in fib_() and remove
> the comment from "croak ..." and "use Carp;". (die() with stack
>
From: "Tagore Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:Tail call optimization
Date sent: Tue, 28 May 2002 23:42:30 -0400
> I came across this statement on the web:
>
> >Perl ... supports the tail-call optimizati