On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Jon Harrop <j...@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:

>
> On Tuesday 20 January 2009 08:01:19 ivant wrote:
> > IIRC, the only major complain Rich has about JVM is the lack
> > of tail-call optimization.
>
> That's a pretty major problem. :-)
>
>
It's a problem, and I hope future versions of the JVM will address it but I
don't think it's a huge problem. There are plenty of languages that also
don't support TCO and there are usually ways to work around them. Clojure
already provides two such options, recur and trampolines.

-- 
Cosmin Stejerean
http://offbytwo.com

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