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I was just starting some state-machine code in Clojure last night, thought about how to best do it functionally (recur doesn't let you cross function boundaries

by amalcon 18y ago

I was just starting some state-machine code in Clojure last night, thought about how to best do it functionally (recur doesn't let you cross function boundaries), and said out loud "I'll use a trampoline!" If that happens again, I can tell the person I confused not to feel badly, because even Guido van Rossum didn't know about trampolines until recently.

alphazero 18y ago
Rich Hickey discussed his using the trampoline pattern in the clojure implementation a while ago: http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/6257cbc4454bcb85/4a21ea1a1cc725a4 http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/...