I'd recommend you read Guy Steele's blog post Why Object-Oriented Languages Need Tail Calls [1] and perhaps the essay by William Cook [2] and the discussion ove

I'd recommend you read Guy Steele's blog post Why Object-Oriented Languages Need Tail Calls [1] and perhaps the essay by William Cook [2] and the discussion over on Lambda the Ultimate [3] [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20091206042608/http://projectfortress.sun.com/Projects/Community/blog/ObjectOrientedTailRecursion https://web.archive.org/web/20091206042608/http://projectfor... [2] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/Drafts/2009/essay.pdf https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/Drafts/2009/essay.pdf [3] http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3702 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3702