Re: [bitcoin-dev] An explanation and justification of the tail-call and MBV approach to MAST

2017-09-20 Thread Andreas M. Antonopoulos via bitcoin-dev
This was very helpful at least to me, thank you I've been struggling to follow the discussion of tail-call execution and understand the options for implementing MAST. This clarified everything. I can now follow the previous discussions. On Sep 20, 2017 18:56, "Mark Friedenbach via bitcoin-dev"

[bitcoin-dev] An explanation and justification of the tail-call and MBV approach to MAST

2017-09-20 Thread Mark Friedenbach via bitcoin-dev
Over the past few weeks I've been explaining the MERKLEBRANCHVERIFY opcode and tail-call execution semantics to a variety of developers, and it's come to my attention that the BIPs presentation of the concept is not as clear as it could be. Part of this is the fault of standards documents being sta