Talk:1270: Functional

I'm getting the adblock message at the top.. on mobile. On an unrelated note, I laughed and I don't even get it. Edit: I'm also seeing an ad while seeing the message.50.159.5.112 06:03, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

This shouldn't be in comic discussion. I have written an updated version of our ad plugin that should only display a message to people using adblock, but we're using a sitenotice for now to test the waters. We'll take it down in about a day, promise!

Also, would you be complicit if I were to move this to the relevant forum? Davidy²²[talk] 06:13, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

I removed that misguided explanation about lists that was not tail recursive. I'm also wondering if we should also mention that tail call optimization is also applicable to mutually recursive functions. In fact proper functional languages will always apply it whether the functions are recursive or not. Maybe emphasize the fact that "The efficiency and elegance are the literal rewards of tail recursion."?

I feel like the examples should be in Haskall, because that is the major functional language... 67.160.98.42 09:48, 27 September 2013 (UTC) GBGamer117

I think Haskell is more common, but I agree. And to emphasize the clarity, usually if/else blocks are avoided using pattern matching. I.e. tail-recursive factorial can be written as follows:

 fac2::Integer-> Integer
 fac2 acc 0 = acc
 fac2 acc n = fac2 (acc*n) (n-1)
 
 fac::Integer-> Integer
 fac = fac2 1

--Chtz (talk) 10:34, 27 September 2013 (UTC)