Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Algol, and language design Message-ID: Date: 27 Jul 90 14:21:48 GMT References: <25630@cs.yale.edu> <58091@lanl.gov> <1990Jul26.024449.1777@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> <2406@l.cc.purdue.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 5 In article <2406@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes: > What language allows carrying globals in registers across recursion? Any language. All that is required is a good inter-procedural optimiser. That's an implementation detail, not a language feature. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`