On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Jon Harrop <j...@ffconsultancy.com> wrote: > I want to make sure I've got my facts straight, both in order to make an > informed decision myself and to inform others accurately. Specifically, I am > considering diversifying into Scala and/or Clojure and I need to know whether > or not the elimination of tail calls may become reliable in those languages > in the relatively-near future. If not, that is a serious impediment for > functional languages and will rule out all JVM-based languages for me.
While I share your enthusiasm for first-class tail-call elimination on the JVM, I think that functional languages (and languages with a functional flavour) on the JVM (I can only really speak for Scala, but I'm sure the same is true for others) are viable even in its absence ... Cheers, Miles -- Miles Sabin tel: +44 (0)1273 720 779 mobile: +44 (0)7813 944 528 skype: milessabin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
