DIP: Tail call optimization

[Dietrich Daroch via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Sunday, 10 July 2016 at 06:59:21 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> On Sunday, 10 July 2016 at 06:44:22 UTC, Dietrich Daroch wrote:
>> Yes, there is no cure for poor skills, but the point is to 
>> prevent the need to avoid recursion to ensure there are no 
>> stack overflows. It seems reasonable considering D targets 
>> systems programming.
>
> i see "system programmer" as someone who is able to understand 
> when TCO is in effect without additional attribute noise. and 
> for others it just doesn't matter -- as they probably is using 
> a library written by "system programmer" anyway, and won't dive 
> into code. ;-)
>
> sorry, it is really just a noise, like "@nogc". compiler does a 
> fairly good work on TCO already, and adding another attribute 
> will just make code messier. it is already @too @many 
> @attributes @in @D.


If attributes look messy, pragma can be used.

It may look as an addition with little gain, but one of the 
reasons of compiling is to prevent runtime errors as early as 
possible and this seeks exactly that.