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**Update**: I figured out how to convert Arrays to Lists the Scala way. Turns out it's a piece of cake.

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Because my first version wasn't actually tail recursive, what follows is a true tail recursive solution, if I were to implement this by hand. The above, built in mechanism is much better, though.


object ArrayUtil {
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