On Monday, 11 July 2016 at 10:25:36 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
On Sunday, 10 July 2016 at 13:15:38 UTC, Andrew Godfrey wrote:
Btw here's a thread from 2014 that touches on the idea of a
"tailrec" annotation. At the time, Walter viewed the
optimization as the compiler's business and not something he'd
elevate to a language feature:
http://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]
I find it odd that something like tail recursions that actually
makes certain things possible that wouldn't be otherwise is
seen as only an optimization, when things like inlining which
really is only an optimization is seen as important enough to
have a pragma.
I agree. Maybe Walter has reconsidered since then. He did also
say, though, that he thinks D supports enough different
programming styles already.
Would you be satisfied with a pragma? I'd intuited (but could be
wrong) that the focus of your proposal was to get a compiler
error if someone makes a change to a recursive function, that
causes the compiler to be unable to apply the TCO optimization.
If that is your focus, it has heavy implications and the feature
can't just be a pragma.
