[gclist] Name that hypothesis

[Charles Fiterman]

At 10:51 AM 12/4/96 +0000, you wrote:
>> We (the Mercury compiler implementors) are currently working on
>> "LCMCA" (last call modulo constructor application) optimization.
>
>Interesting. So you receive results by reference? In pseudo-ML:
>
>	fun foo 0 = [] | foo n = n :: (foo (n-1))
>
>	=>
>
>	fun foo' (p,0) = (p := [])
>	  | foo' (p,n) = (p := new_cons();
>	                  car(p) := n;
>			  foo' (&cdr(p), n-1))
>
>	?
>
>(this is getting a little off-topic for GC-list).

Not at all. Modern languages are garbage collected this is very
on topic.

Charles Fiterman	Geodesic Systems
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A computer language without garbage collection
  is like a city without garbage collection.