The Downfall of Imperative Programming

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On 11.04.2012 1:04, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> 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...
>

+1 Let me correct your last statement:
"it may overflow stack or not depending on the implementation"

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Dmitry Olshansky