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Why Object-Oriented Languages Need Tail CallsThe Fortress blog has a recent post, Why Object-Oriented Languages Need Tail Calls, where Guy Steele argues for the necessity of proper tail call implementations without rehashing two of the classic arguments: state machines and the continuation passing style. It starts by mentioning William Cook's On Understanding Data Abstraction, Revisited:
The post also mentions other papers previously discussed on LtU: Automata as Macros, and A Tail-Recursive Machine with Stack Inspection. |
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