Message from JavaScript talks
April 2017
— Wow, I haven't seen a single use for the labels.
It's the first time I even saw them, but apparently the inventor of Fortran came up with some functional programming idea where you can use them to write recursive functions without recursing
— The best part is, it supposedly works on any recursive function under the sun, and is faster in JS due to not having to manage a call stack
— While you do have to manage state a lot more between "recursions", essentially you wrap the whole thing in a loop, then when you want to recurse you save state, then run continue myLoop;
— Implementing a stack to save state into is best because it then emulates the behavior of a real call stack
— Without the RangeError :p
— Wow
— Fuck
— That's genious
— You mean tail call elimination?
— I don't think this is the same thing
— That's hardly new or novel and it does not work for all recursive functions