I am playing around with the aho-corasick algorithm to try and get a little better with F#, and I ran across a problem with the Trie implementations, they are all mutable or can't be tail call opti...

Sometimes it's simple enough (if the self call is the last statement, it's tail recursion), but there are still cases that confuse me. A professor told me that "if there's no instruction to execute...

According to answers to that question: Which, if any, C++ compilers do tail-recursion optimization? it seems, that compiler should do tail-recursion optimization. But I've tried proposed options ...

Microsoft's new F# programming language provides the powerful combination of functional programming (first-class lexical closures and tail calls) with an efficient concurrent garbage collector that...