[comp.lang.scheme] What is Scheme

hieb@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Robert Hieb) (08/30/90)

Just to make sure it is not forgotten, let me add "proper treatment of
tail-recursion" to the list of Scheme essentials.  It is essential to
keeping control in Scheme limited to procedure call and return,
continuation invocation, and conditional branching (the last of which
is least).

Bob Hieb

jeff@aiai.edinburgh.ac.UK (Jeff Dalton) (08/30/90)

> Just to make sure it is not forgotten, let me add "proper treatment of
> tail-recursion" to the list of Scheme essentials. 

Well, in that case we'd better add garbage collection.