use warnings;
sub recurse {
    my $i = shift;
    return if $i == 0;
    recurse($i-1);
}

sub tailless_recurse {
    my $i = shift;
    return if $i == 0;
    @_ = ($i-1);
    goto &tailless_recurse;
}

print "recursing\n";
recurse(200);
print "tailless_recursing\n";
tailless_recurse(200);
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This produces the following output:

recursing
Deep recursion on subroutine "main::recurse" at /tmp/p line 7.
tailless_recursing
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Note that the second one doesn't produce the deep recursion warning.

This is the feature that goto &tail_call provides in perl's runtime environment.

BTW, I totally aggree with the carpenter and bricklayer comment. :)