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Anonymous recursive functions in Racket

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88 points azhenley | 3 comments | 04 Sep 25 00:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.639s | source
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CyberDildonics ◴[06 Sep 25 21:37 UTC] No.45153090[source]▶
I would rather use a loop so I can debug it.
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1. treyd ◴[06 Sep 25 21:46 UTC] No.45153162[source]▶
Tail-recursive functions in Racket are optimized down to essentially for loops.
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2. stirfish ◴[07 Sep 25 00:44 UTC] No.45154267[source]▶
What's it like to debug them?
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3. rgherdt ◴[07 Sep 25 17:58 UTC] No.45160586[source]▶
One strategy is by "tracing" a function call:

https://docs.racket-lang.org/trace/