[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell/JDK/tail-calls etc. (please vote on bug No. 6804517)

[Johannes Waldmann]

> from time to time request for Haskell running on top of Java's VM pops
> on the haskell related mailing list and then usually dies off when
> someone mentions that JDK does not have proper support for tail-calls. 

would it help? For eager evaluation, certainly (I understand
that Clojure and Scala are suffering from this), but for Haskell?

J.W.