G'day all. On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 11:59:45PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:
> [ I'm playing devils advocate for a while longer as I'm not 100% convinced ] Understood. > Isn't compiler convienience a (the?) major issue here? I wouldn't call it a "major issue". I think of it as a constraint. The major issue is performance, subject to the constraint that it should be possible to write a working compiler (possibly generating inefficient code) without going to a lot of trouble. > How common do you expect tail calls to be? (Got practical examples?) In Perl, not common. When's the last time you used "goto-&NAME"? In functional languages (e.g. Scheme) and logic languages (e.g. Prolog), it's usually part of the spec. Cheers, Andrew Bromage
