2009/4/3 Jon Harrop <j...@ffconsultancy.com>: > > On Friday 03 April 2009 14:18:32 Robert Fischer wrote: >> Jon Harrop wrote: >> > The state of the art in all of the major "functional" languages for the >> > JVM (Scala and Clojure) is that they die with a stack overflow because >> > the JVM lacks tail calls. :-) >> >> That's odd. I've been programming with Scala for a while now, and haven't >> had this issue. > > Search for "stack overflow" in the Scala compiler's own bug tracker. :-)
Yes. Because all stack overflows are clearly caused by a failure of tail recursion... Except that in the real world the only issue you'll find that's even slightly relevant is that List.equals isn't properly tail recursive because of these issues (which is a pain, but can be circumvented). Basically all stack overflows within the compiler itself that I'm aware of are from the type checker, which you'd have a very hard time making tail recursive without converting it to CPS to reify the stack onto the heap. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to jvm-languages@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jvm-languages+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
