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		jlouis on Oct 13, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No more tail calls in Javascript? Oh, that is easy to fix. Kill EVAL. I will postulate that EVAL is a much more intrusive thing to have in a language than TCO. And why kill EVAL? Because it makes it a lot harder to reason about programs and the future mandates we can prove properties about our programs. Better start now than later.

raganwald on Oct 13, 2008 [–]

...and POOF! Ruby on Rails' RJS templates rolled-up into an 11-dimensional ball and vanished...

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