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If so, can a purely functional language require no more than one stack frame?

• nailuj 8y ago
  It depends on what you mean by purely functional, the lambda calculus certainly doesn't require stack frames. Even better, you can implement any programming language without a stack. Stack frames are only a convenience feature for programmers after all (well, and many architectures probably do some hardware optimizations when using the stack related registers for stack things).