On: One Major Difference Between Clojure and Common Li...

[EdwardDiego]

You can use the recur special form to enforce recursion from the tail position in Clojure.

[lispm → EdwardDiego]

True, but that's not TCO (or tail call elimination). That would mean that every single tail call is optimized to eliminate that stack overhead.

    (defun foo () (foo)) ;<- tail call

    (defun bar () (bar)) ;<- tail call

    (defun baz (a b) (+  ;<- tail call
                        (* a 2)
                        (* b 3)))

[devin → EdwardDiego]

This.