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[Cwright017]

Does the roku compiler offer anything such as tail call optimisation? I doubt it as it's still easily possible to encounter a stack overflow within BS - also does roku limit the number of recursive calls?

[Komag]

Well I don't suppose it could be unlimited, but do mean to ask whether there is an arbitrarily set language limit or just a natural hardware memory limit? I guess it could be tested with different amounts of recursion until one fails

[EnTerr]

"Cwright017" wrote:
Does the roku compiler offer anything such as tail call optimisation?

No. And neither does Python, to bring a widespread language into the picture. So get over it :mrgreen:

Wait till you learn there is neither lexical nor dynamic variable scope in B/S. Nor closures. I expected it will be big PITA w/o these. But you know what? It hasn't been an issue for me coding... if anything, it had prevented me from making subtle mistakes (like the kind of troubles the global scope in Javascript and Lua does).