Simple tail calls
Michael Day
mikeday at yeslogic.com
Sun Dec 7 00:11:17 PST 2008
Hi Peter,
> From what I understand, if lambdas are supposed obey Tenent's
> principle, then they cannot have a return statement/expression.
> Wrapping an expression in a lambda must not change the meaning of the
> program. the following would need to be equivalent.
Right, I personally think this is unnecessary; functions don't follow
this principle, after all.
I think it makes sense for expressions to have the same meaning, but not
control flow statements when moved into a new execution context.
Cheers,
Michael
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