Subject: Re: Why no call with current continuation?
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 03:54:20 CDT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <Wt6dnclsVYShygCgXTWcqw@News.GigaNews.Com>
Joe Marshall  <jrm@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
+---------------
| Duane Rettig <duane@franz.com> writes:
| > I detest the usage of the term Tail Call _Elimination_.
| 
| Can we go back to calling it the "JRST hack"?
+---------------

Don't you really mean the "PJRST" hack?  ;-}


-Rob

p.s. Hmmm... Maybe not. The PJRST macro (opdef, really) was used
as early as TOPS-10 Monitor 4S72 (circa 1970), but it may not have
been officially mandated for denoting TCE until 5.0 (~1972?). The
"JRST hack" was probably used long before that in ITS/MacLisp, yes?

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