On 07/22/2014 09:42 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On overall I prefer D over Haskell, but if you want to criticize
Haskell you
need much much better arguments and way bigger cannons :-)
The point was not at all to criticize Haskell. The point was that D does
not need tail recursion because D supports writing loop constructs.
Tail call support is still useful. Looping is not the main reason for
supporting tail calls. Eg. a tail call might be indirect and only
sometimes recurse on the same function and sometimes call another function.
Showing how loops could be written using awkward
The point is not to criticize? :-)
monads in Haskell that
Haskell programmers wouldn't write does not change that point.
Sure, that part of the discussion grew out of the claim that there are
"no loops" there.
