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[Brian Rogoff via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 22 July 2014 at 21:23:33 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 07/22/2014 09:42 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> The point was not at all to criticize Haskell. The point was 
>> that D does
>> not need tail recursion because D supports writing loop 
>> constructs.
>
> Tail call support is still useful. Looping is not the main 
> reason for supporting tail calls. Eg. a tail call might be 
> indirect and only sometimes recurse on the same function and 
> sometimes call another function.

Indeed, I recall Matthias Felleisen wrote that OOP makes no sense 
without TCO because methods will indirectly call each other. See

https://blogs.oracle.com/jrose/entry/tail_calls_in_the_vm#comment-1259314984000
http://www.eighty-twenty.org/index.cgi/tech/oo-tail-calls-20111001.html

While I don't care much for OOP, D is supposed to support that 
style.