Re: proper tail calls

2008-01-19 Thread Brendan Eich
On Jan 19, 2008, at 12:31 AM, Peter Michaux wrote: > It seems like having types in ES4 is adding quite a bit of difficulty > to when a proper tail call can occur. The Scheme folks don't have to > deal with that, I suppose. Contract systems in Scheme may use space, so this is a problem that has

Re: proper tail calls

2008-01-19 Thread Peter Michaux
On Jan 18, 2008 10:49 PM, Brendan Eich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 18, 2008, at 9:36 PM, Peter Michaux wrote: [snip] Some of the shorthand terminology that has developed in the conversations is a bit unfamiliar to me. Hopefully my questions below are not ridiculous. > Is it not reason