On 2008-01-21, at 18:13, Peter Hall wrote:

>> The argument (which I do not think is decisive) is that PTC breaks  
>> debugability.
>
> I am a bit out of my depth in this discussion, but explicit syntax  
> feels wrong to me. However, if it's going to be implicit, it has to  
> be completely invisible (aside from the benefits) - developers are  
> going to want their debugging tools to work as before.
>
> Is there a practical approach to recursion counting, that ES4 could  
> require, so that Error.getStackTrace() can use it to produce the  
> "expected" result?


Tail calls do not have to be self recursive. Only a stack could  
maintain the necessary state...

— Gordon

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