[plt-scheme] Getting wine from water

> If you are writing a compiler in language X that does not support 
> feature Y can your compiler implement feature Y.
>
> Specific question:
>
> If you are writing a compiler in Java (which does not support tail call 
> optimisation) .........

Hi Wooks,

In the particular case about tail optimization, see Dan Friedman's "The 
Role of the Study of Programming Languages in the Education of a 
Programmer":

     http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dfried/dfried/mex.pdf

The whole talk is Good Stuff.  Starting around page 14 of his lecture he 
addresses a topic I think you'll especially like.


His paper on "Trampolined Style" is one possible way to make tail-calls 
work:

     http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/dfried/ts.ps

It's the approach I used in my toy project "pyscheme" to get tail calls to 
work in an environment (Python) that didn't support it.  You might like to 
see some notes I wrote on it here:

http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/python/pyscheme/baypiggies_notes/slides.pdf



Best of wishes!