DIP: Tail call optimization

[Tofu Ninja via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Sunday, 10 July 2016 at 13:15:38 UTC, Andrew Godfrey wrote:
> Btw here's a thread from 2014 that touches on the idea of a 
> "tailrec" annotation. At the time, Walter viewed the 
> optimization as the compiler's business and not something he'd 
> elevate to a language feature:
>
>
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/lqp6pu$1kkv$1@digitalmars.com

I find it odd that something like tail recursions that actually 
makes certain things possible that wouldn't be otherwise is seen 
as only an optimization, when things like inlining which really 
is only an optimization is seen as important enough to have a 
pragma.