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> Does Hobbit use trampolines to implement tail calls between C > functions? Or does it just let the stack grow? Not a criticism, mind > you --- getting tail recursion to work is a pain. What is wrong with implementing tail calls as `return(foo())' or something similar and letting the C compiler optimise them? Seems like doing something fancier than that is falling into the ``too smart by half'' category. - Tel