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by hajile 1655 days ago
Proper tail calls are ALREADY part of the spec.

Google and Mozilla simply chose to ignore the spec.
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Scarbutt 1655 days ago
More like Google, Mozilla just waits to see if Google is going to implement it since they can't think for themselves.
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adamddev1 1655 days ago
It would be so nice to have it though! It could do a lot popularize recursive problem-solving and function writing, without having to go into modifying these functions to make them stack-safe.
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