Re: Function Cell Follow-up

[Guy Steele <gls@THINK-AQUINAS.ARPA>]

    Date: Mon, 24 Feb 86 18:56:14 MST
    From: shebs%utah-orion@utah-cs.arpa (Stanley Shebs)

	Date: Mon, 24 Feb 86 20:28:33 EST
	From: Jonathan A Rees <JAR@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU>
    
	    Date: Mon, 24 Feb 86 15:56 EST
	    From: David C. Plummer <DCP at SCRC-QUABBIN.ARPA>
    
	    Is tail recursion REQUIRED of Scheme implementations, or is just in all
	    the papers because it is easy to do in most Scheme implementations.
    
	It's absolutely as essential as garbage collection. [...]

    I recall reading some old Lisp Machine papers that suggested
    garbage collection should be avoided (DDI = Don't Do It!)  :-) :-)

							    stan

Probably you are thinking of JONL White's paper in the 1980 Lisp Conference.
--Guy