Tail call
SUBROUTINE THAT CALLS ITSELF AS ITS FINAL ACTION
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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.