Table lookups - this is pretty definitive

bearophile bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Wed Apr 2 18:21:58 PDT 2014


Walter Bright:

>> D can't give an error in that case because it's a big breaking 
>> change. So is D in that case just
>> silently not performing the tail call as the programmer meant?
>
> That's right.

Then this feature needs a specific and explicit syntax, or it has 
_no_ point at all.
(Note: I am currently not asking for this feature in D. I have 
just shown one of its minimal requirements).

Bye,
bearophile


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