Re: proper tail calls

2008-01-20 Thread Brendan Eich
On Jan 20, 2008, at 5:22 PM, Erik Arvidsson wrote: > My concern with E (or A for that matter) is that it requires > additional syntax. I'd prefer if we could keep the syntax small. I > don't think implicit PTC is an issue. It is an optimization that the > interpreter/compiler should do. What a

Re: proper tail calls

2008-01-20 Thread Erik Arvidsson
My concern with E (or A for that matter) is that it requires additional syntax. I'd prefer if we could keep the syntax small. I don't think implicit PTC is an issue. It is an optimization that the interpreter/compiler should do. What are the problems with I? It does not change the semantics of