Fix Stack_overflow for filtering a file #102
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The current implementation rarely raises the Stack_overflow exception for filtering some particular files. I encountered the situation with a file containing a rather long
[[ ... ]]
being parsed.This fix replaces non-tail-recursive functions related to the problem with tail-recursive ones. I believe this fix causes minor performance issues for at least filtering files the current implementation can handle because only a short list is dealt with in such cases. The fix may be more efficient if we well understand the algorithm, though. For example, we can remove
List.rev
if a list used in the algorithm is order-irrespective.