Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> Yeah, true. And that's the kind of trick Haskell's compiler is likely to 
> pull off too...

I thought it was pretty cool that the latest Erlang compilers will see 
code like

map(F, [H|T]) -> [F(H)|map(F,T)];
map(F, []) -> [].

and turn it into the same code you'd get with an auxiliary accumulator 
and a call to "reverse" at the end.

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