Re: srfi-13 string-any tail call

Kevin Ryde <user42@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > Yes.  It would be nice in general to have a new kind of 'trampoline'
> > subr that returns a function+args to call in a tail-recursive way.
> 
> Or func+args in some new magic type, so a subr can return either a
> value or a new place to goto.

Hmm, a value can be returned by using 'identity' as the function to
tail-call, but which method is more efficient is probably hard to say.
 
> I was wanting `catch' to do a tail call to its handler so the handler
> could recurse to continue on the rest of some data.

That would be very nice.

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