So, here I am working on a Scheme interpreter in Perl 6, and I'm
trying to write it in a (for want of a better description)
'Scheme-like' fashion with lots of recursion.
The trouble is, unless Perl6 is going to be guaranteed to do
optimization of tail calls, this is going to lead to horribly slo
Piers Cawley writes:
: So, here I am working on a Scheme interpreter in Perl 6, and I'm
: trying to write it in a (for want of a better description)
: 'Scheme-like' fashion with lots of recursion.
:
: The trouble is, unless Perl6 is going to be guaranteed to do
: optimization of tail calls, this
> : Piers Cawley writes:
> :
> : So, here I am working on a Scheme interpreter in Perl 6, and I'm
> : trying to write it in a (for want of a better description)
> : 'Scheme-like' fashion with lots of recursion.
> :
> : The trouble is, unless Perl6 is going to be guaranteed to do
> : optimization
"Jonathan E. Paton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> : Piers Cawley writes:
>> :
>> : So, here I am working on a Scheme interpreter in Perl 6, and I'm
>> : trying to write it in a (for want of a better description)
>> : 'Scheme-like' fashion with lots of recursion.
>> :
>> : The trouble is, unles
> >> : Piers Cawley writes:
> >> : ...
> >> : The trouble is, unless Perl6 is going to be guaranteed to do
> >> : optimization of tail calls, this is going to lead to horribly slow
> >> : code. So, do I bite the bullet and recast some of the functions in an
> >> : iterative vein, or do I trust t
At 11:45 PM +0100 4/5/02, Piers Cawley wrote:
>So, here I am working on a Scheme interpreter in Perl 6, and I'm
>trying to write it in a (for want of a better description)
>'Scheme-like' fashion with lots of recursion.
>
>The trouble is, unless Perl6 is going to be guaranteed to do
>optimization o
=?iso-8859-1?q?Jonathan=20E.=20Paton?= writes:
: > : Piers Cawley writes:
: > :
: > : So, here I am working on a Scheme interpreter in Perl 6, and I'm
: > : trying to write it in a (for want of a better description)
: > : 'Scheme-like' fashion with lots of recursion.
: > :
: > : The trouble is,
=?iso-8859-1?q?Jonathan=20E.=20Paton?= writes:
: Anything that touches string evaluation (Perl5's eval"") could harbour
: caller(), this wouldn't matter unless there was a way to proprogate
: exceptions out of an eval"" - and I bet someone already has the
: appropriate RPC written.
Well, eval pes
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> At 11:45 PM +0100 4/5/02, Piers Cawley wrote:
>>So, here I am working on a Scheme interpreter in Perl 6, and I'm
>>trying to write it in a (for want of a better description)
>>'Scheme-like' fashion with lots of recursion.
>>
>>The trouble is, unless Perl
