Thun/docs/reference/tailrec.md

## tailrec Combinator A specialization of the [genrec] combinator. ### Definition > i [genrec] ### Discussion Some recursive functions do not need to store additional data or pending actions per-call. These are called "tail recursive" functions. In Joy, they appear as [genrec] definitions that have [i] for the second half of their recursive branch. See the Recursion Combinators notebook. ### Crosslinks [genrec]