https://ankitbahuguna.xyz/tags/functional-programming/ Recent content in functional programming on ankit bahuguna Hugo -- gohugo.io en Tue, 15 Aug 2023 01:55:25 +0530 https://ankitbahuguna.xyz/posts/undertanding-tail-recursion/ Tue, 15 Aug 2023 01:55:25 +0530 https://ankitbahuguna.xyz/posts/undertanding-tail-recursion/ I’ve been playing around with OCaml lately and wanted to understand how tail recursion works. According to Wikipedia: “In computer science, a tail call is a subroutine call performed as the final action of a procedure. If the target of a tail is the same subroutine, the subroutine is said to be tail recursive, which is a special case of direct recursion.” Non-Tail Recursive Sum Function in OCaml Here’s a non-tail recursive sum function in OCaml: