From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!diablo.theplanet.net!newsfeed.esat.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader3.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Tail recursion & CL References: <87iteghyva.fsf@pps.jussieu.fr> <87zo73fsr4.fsf@pps.jussieu.fr> <3211542753013083@naggum.net> <3211612557359956@naggum.net> <4jDDO4+sWd7EGsbKaJrm6tFaAqq4@4ax.com> <3bc3f0e5.394414087@news.callatg.com> <87669m5b8y.fsf@pps.jussieu.fr> <3bc6887a.564291097@news.callatg.com> <871yk8nc52.fsf@pps.jussieu.fr> <8bbd9ac3.0110130835.6ccb7894@posting.google.com> <87vghgcyyt.fsf@pps.jussieu.fr> <3bcd2e7a.1000063244@news.callatg.com> <3bcdb42c.1034288978@news.callatg.com> <3bd0cbd8$0$30612$9b622d9e@news.freenet.de> <3bd10346.1251147184@news.callatg.com> <2helny8vb9.fsf@dslab7.cs.uit.no> <3212581297705213@naggum.net> <2h669a8cni.fsf@dslab7.cs.uit.no> <3212605764038030@naggum.net> <3212695116153606@naggum.net> <874roqs6fs.fsf@pps.jussieu.fr> <3212936997655473@naggum.net> <87u1wgg7kv.fsf@pps.jussieu.fr> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3213536963677093@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:09:26 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@Norway.EU.net X-Trace: nreader3.kpnqwest.net 1004548166 193.71.66.49 (Wed, 31 Oct 2001 18:09:26 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 18:09:26 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:18916 * Erik Naggum | You really need a language definition that provides what you want. * Juliusz Chroboczek | No. I need a document that the ACL implementors can refer to, and write | in their documentation ``In compiled code, ACL performs tail-call | elimination in all the situations mandated by document FOO. | Additionally, ACL will perform tail-call elimination in the following | situations: ...'' Have you offered to pay Franz Inc to provide you with this document? Have you in fact done _anything_ to motivate anyone to do what you think is a good idea? You only demand, and offer nothing in return, not even the hope of not hearing more of your stupid whining. | P.S. By the way, you're wrong. It's not Scheme exposure I'm suffering | of, it's my ML background showing. You mistake me for caring where you go when you leave c.l.l alone. All I suggest is that you go over to comp.lang.scheme, which I do not read, where you will have much more "success" with your tail-call trolling, but then I expect that you will bother them with numerous things you "want" after you get what you say you want here. /// -- Norway is now run by a priest from the fundamentalist Christian People's Party, the fifth largest party representing one eighth of the electorate. -- Carrying a Swiss Army pocket knife in Oslo, Norway, is a criminal offense.