[Jscheme-user] tail calls in java

[Ken A. <kan...@bb...>]

Here's an interesting paper on how to do tail calls in Java.

http://docs.msdnaa.net/ark_new/Webfiles/WhitePapers/Babel01/bab12.pdf

They do a CPS conversion and rather than doing tail calls they pass in a stack depth counter with each call, when the counter goes to 0 they either throw or return a continuation.  When the original call recieves the continuation it just executes it again to keep the computation going.