Perl has a similar syntax, it is quite nice sub my_funct{ my($x, $y) = @_; #… goto &my_funct($x, $y); } In Perl this is conven

Perl has a similar syntax, it is quite nice sub my_funct{ my($x, $y) = @_; #… goto &my_funct($x, $y); } In Perl this is convenient because effectively with just adding the goto keyword you reduce all the memory use and risk of blowing your stack (recursion is otherwise super inefficient in Perl).