Proper Tail Calls Dropped from ECMAScript 4th Edition
Brendan Eich reports that the Proper Tail Calls proposal for ECMAScript 4th Edition has been dropped. Brendan mentioned in a posting to the ES4-Discuss list yesterday that the proposal was dropped at the committee meeting last Friday:
"...(news flash) proper tail calls are out of ES4 as of yesterday's Ecma TC39 meeting, by general (regretful, in Mozilla's case) agreement."
It's not in the meeting notes yet, but I'm sure it will be added before the meeting notes are finalized. I guess the writing was on the wall, because the only three companies that have commented on this feature have all marked this feature as a low priority in the ES4 Progress Tracking Spreadsheet.
Comments
That's unfortunate, but ehh, guess we can't have everything.
Posted by: Nathan Youngman | March 31, 2008 7:29 PM