[plt-scheme] HtDP in Python!

Perhaps he meant "introspection"?

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk at cs.brown.edu> wrote:
>>> It is, in my opinion a language where you can integrate
>>> OOP and functional programming nicely (although the majority of program
>>> will use mostly OOP features).
>>
>> You cannot have true OOP without tail calls.  This is not a matter of
>> nitpicking.  See Matthias Felleisen's ECOOP invited talk slides.
>>
>> (You can't have true FP without tail calls, either, but I assume
>> everyone here knows that.  A few seconds' inspection clarifies that
>> both of these "can't have"s are for the same reason.)
>
> Inspection of that ECOOP paper?
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