When is tail recursion guaranteed in Rust?

Shepmaster’s answer explains that tail call elimination is merely an optimization, not a guarantee, in Rust. But “never guaranteed” doesn’t mean “never happens”. Let’s take a look at what the compiler does with some real code. Does it happen in this function? As of right now, the latest release of Rust available on Compiler Explorer … Read more

Understanding Recursion to generate permutations

PaulR has the right suggestion. You have to run through the code by “hand” (using whatever tools you want – debuggers, paper, logging function calls and variables at certain points) until you understand it. For an explanation of the code I’ll refer you to quasiverse’s excellent answer. Perhaps this visualization of the call graph with … Read more

How to understand trampoline in JavaScript?

The trampoline is just a technique to optimize recursion and prevent stack-overflow exceptions in languages that don’t support tail call optimization like Javascript ES5 implementation and C#. However, ES6 will probably have support for tail call optimization. The problem with regular recursion is that every recursive call adds a stack frame to the call stack, … Read more

create array tree from array list [duplicate]

oke this is how i solved it: $arr = array( array(‘id’=>100, ‘parentid’=>0, ‘name’=>’a’), array(‘id’=>101, ‘parentid’=>100, ‘name’=>’a’), array(‘id’=>102, ‘parentid’=>101, ‘name’=>’a’), array(‘id’=>103, ‘parentid’=>101, ‘name’=>’a’), ); $new = array(); foreach ($arr as $a){ $new[$a[‘parentid’]][] = $a; } $tree = createTree($new, array($arr[0])); print_r($tree); function createTree(&$list, $parent){ $tree = array(); foreach ($parent as $k=>$l){ if(isset($list[$l[‘id’]])){ $l[‘children’] = createTree($list, $list[$l[‘id’]]); } … Read more

Are there problems that cannot be written using tail recursion?

Yes, actually you can take some code and convert every function call—and every return—into a tail call. What you end up with is called continuation-passing style, or CPS. For example, here’s a function containing two recursive calls: (define (count-tree t) (if (pair? t) (+ (count-tree (car t)) (count-tree (cdr t))) 1)) And here’s how it … Read more

What is the easiest way to get the property value from a passed lambda expression in an extension method for HtmlHelper?

Try like this: public static MvcHtmlString Try<TModel, TProperty>( this HtmlHelper<TModel> htmlHelper, Expression<Func<TModel, TProperty>> expression ) { var builder = new TagBuilder(“textarea”); builder.AddCssClass(“ckeditor”); builder.MergeAttribute(“cols”, “80”); builder.MergeAttribute(“name”, “editor1”); builder.MergeAttribute(“id”, expression.Name); // not sure about the id – verify var value = ModelMetadata.FromLambdaExpression( expression, htmlHelper.ViewData ).Model; builder.SetInnerText(value.ToString()); return MvcHtmlString.Create(builder.ToString()); }