Ryan Bates (Dec 06 2023 at 07:47): Ryan Bates (Dec 06 2023 at 07:47):Is recursion encouraged in Roc like it is in other functional languages? I didn't see mention of it in the tutorial or docs.
How's the performance in Roc compared to iterators like List.walk? And do I need to worry about stack overflow?
Brendan Hansknecht (Dec 06 2023 at 08:02):If you write tail recursive functions, recursion is high performance in roc.
Brendan Hansknecht (Dec 06 2023 at 08:04):Also, we have slices, so recursively looping over a list and consuming the first few characters for parsing should be fast.
Brendan Hansknecht (Dec 06 2023 at 08:04):No copying or data shifting should happen
Ryan Bates (Dec 06 2023 at 17:14):Awesome, thanks for the answer
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