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		samth on Dec 19, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cancelable Promises: Why was this proposal withdra... This is emphatically NOT true about tail calls and Safari -- the JSC has already implemented proper tail calls, and they were the first to do so.

Klathmon on Dec 19, 2016 [–]

Safari was against an explicit tail call syntax [0], and as part of that were against "TCO" as an optional optimization, however they are the first to implement PTC.

[0] https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/issues/535

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