After spending a lot of time in Scheme, it’s hard not to think in recursion from time to time. When I recently started to improve my Python skills, I missed having Scheme optimize my tail recursive calls.
For example, consider the mutually recursive functions even and odd. You know a number, n, is even if it [...]
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