Meaning

1 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The technique of writing a function so that recursive calls are only done immediately before function return, particularly when recursive control structures are used in place of iterative ones.

Forms

plural: tail recursions
Singulartail recursion
Pluraltail recursions

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