If you want to apply a functional style to your programming, even relatively simple algorithmswhich intuitively shouldn't require many resources bomb out early without tail call optimizations. It isn't the end of the world but you have to choose less expressive/declarative solutions to your problems which as well as being less elegant are much harder to understand/maintain.
Cheers, Paul. On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Joshua Marinacci <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay.. seriously dudes! I've been hearing this request over and over. Of > all of the things missing from the Java platform (and they are many, believe > me), why is *tail recursion* the make or break feature for the future of the > Java platform? Seriously?! Tail Recursion?! Not fixing applets or > modularity or starting up 18 times faster, but tail recursion!? WTH! > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
