Martin DeMello wrote: > Joel VanderWerf <vjoel / path.berkeley.edu> wrote: > >>Ruby doesn't optimize this tail recursion, but Scheme does. That's one >>way Scheme could be said to be more "functional". > > http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/Presentations/ecoop2004.pdf > suggests that no language should be called properly OO unless it does > tail call optimisation :) Heh. I hereby pronounce that no language is truly OO unless its name starts with an R and ends with a Y. Hal