Apple Computer. Dylan tm An Object-Oriented Dynamic Language. Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA, 1992.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles

....features since at least 1976[15, 16] Because of its ubiquity, the language C has become a popular target language for these compilers[13, 20, 1, 14, 19] But there are difficulties that arise from the choice of C as a target language: 1. Fully tail recursive languages (e.g. Scheme, ML, and Dylan[3]) consider procedure call to be goto statements that happen to pass arguments, 16] while C implementations are free to treat procedure call and goto completely separately. Worse yet, C implementations are encouraged to do so by restrictions on labels: they may be used only in a goto statement, ....

Apple Computer. Dylan tm An Object-Oriented Dynamic Language. Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA, 1992.

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