For comparison here's Guido's take on the subject wrt Python: http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2009/04/tail-recursion-elimination.html
On Apr 11, 1:30 am, kirk <kirk.pepperd...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jon Harrop wrote: > > On Friday 10 April 2009 10:41:57 Attila Szegedi wrote: > > >> My stance is that it is, in the same sense as GC is. See, memory > >> management is not specified *at all* in the JVM specification. > > > While that analogy has a sound theoretical foundation it completely ignores > > practicality. Imagine how successful the JVM would be if *all* of the > > available implementations died if there were 10,000 reachable objects. > > which is why it's a good one for TCO. > > Regards, > Kirk --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
