The Downfall of Imperative Programming

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 10-04-2012 23:02, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 4/10/12 3:02 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
>> Hummm... the really core issue is whether the language supports tail
>> call optimization. Functional programming languages demand it, C, C++,
>> Java, Go, Python definitely don't have it, D...
>
> D has only the tail recursion, not the tail call. The latter should be
> easy to implement.
>
> Andrei

One thing I think we need to do with D is actually guarantee tail calls 
in the situations where it makes sense. A mistake many other languages 
made is saying that "this may or may not be a tail call depending on the 
implementation". This is not enough of a guarantee to write portable 
programs...

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- Alex