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From: Jonathan Roewen <jonathan.roewen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Reporting on sucess/failure of tail recursion
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> Is there a way to do this? Does anyone else think this would be a useful
> feature?

I would love this feature! I was thinking about mentioning some
two-three days ago myself ;-)

Even cooler would be if a tool could suggest an alternative
implementation that is tail-rec if can be made so.

Jonathan