From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53989BB81 for ; Sat, 1 Oct 2005 15:58:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j91DwXDJ032178 for ; Sat, 1 Oct 2005 15:58:33 +0200 Received: from 192.168.1.100 (c-24-118-210-113.hsd1.mn.comcast.net[24.118.210.113]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with SMTP id <2005100113583101400kmrdde>; Sat, 1 Oct 2005 13:58:31 +0000 Subject: Re: Ant: Re: [Caml-list] Avoiding shared data From: Bill Wood To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr In-Reply-To: <20051001123425.GA604@first.in-berlin.de> References: <20050926081727.GA9114@coruscant.stwing.upenn.edu> <20050926210730.55850.qmail@web26803.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <20050930225737.GA592@first.in-berlin.de> <200509301707.01281.pal_engstad@naughtydog.com> <20051001123425.GA604@first.in-berlin.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 08:58:30 -0500 Message-Id: <1128175110.19269.5.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.1-1mdk Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 433E9609.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 avoiding:01 argues:01 recursive:01 shivers:01 gotos:01 comcast:98 ...:98 lambda:01 lambda:01 writes:01 functions:01 precisely:01 data:02 loops:02 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.9 required=5.0 tests=DNS_FROM_RFC_POST, DNS_FROM_RFC_WHOIS,FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 . . . > > The author argues that "Writing loops with tail-recursive function calls is > > the equivalent of writing them with goto???s." > > I doubt that the author writes that. > You mean for/while instead of goto's as a substitute for > recursive functions...?! Actually, the author does say that. More precisely, Shivers refers to Steele's characterization of lambda as "gotos with arguments"; I think the source is the paper "Lambda: the Ultimate GOTO". -- Bill Wood bill.wood@acm.org