On 22/01/2008, Jon Zeppieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Really, all of our back-and-forth since those messages has been pretty > much off topic.
To bring this back to the topic. I do not think an explicit syntax for tail calls is useful for the following reasons: 1. It does not guarantee at the compile time that the call is in PTC position since the type checker is optional in the language. As such it can not be used as an universal static assert. 2. Given that ES4 does not specify a particular space bounds on most of runtime operations, the explicit syntax may mislead a reader about the execution complexity of the code. An implicit PCT at least does not emphasis itself syntactically and, as a consequence, the reader may consider all aspects of the code like GC pressure, operation complexity etc when reasoning about the space and time behavior. Regards, Igor _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
