Though, for completeness, all of those are just loops in disguise (which isn't an argument for or against it).
Only if you consider loops and tail recursion to be the same thing, which is debatable.
Also, it's only the same when applied to lists.
Other monadic structures may not act as loops at all, when called with reduce aka fold
reduce
fold
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Though, for completeness, all of those are just loops in disguise (which isn't an argument for or against it).
Only if you consider loops and tail recursion to be the same thing, which is debatable.
Also, it's only the same when applied to lists.
Other monadic structures may not act as loops at all, when called with
reduceakafold