Re: Tail Recursion in Perl

I haven't dug very deep myself, but I've heard that tail recursion is a lost cause in Perl5. It's one of those things that we'll have to wait for Perl6 to get.

If you're intrested in internals, search around for Parret. It's what Perl6 will run on, but porting other languages to it is an explicit goal (unlike the Java VM), and supports some really cool stuff from functional programming (unlike .NET).

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I wanted to explore how Perl's closures can be manipulated, and ended up creating an object system by accident.
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Re: Re: Tail Recursion in Perl by talexb (Chancellor) on Dec 31, 2003 at 17:13 UTC
Of course I think you mean Parrot, and you can find information about it here and here. Alex / talexb / Toronto Life is short: get busy!	[reply]