[Mono-devel-list] tailcall support in mcs

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> However, if the user/developer can *rely* on the presence of tail-call optimisation,
> whole new styles of programming are opened up. In particular, the use of "continuation
> passing style" (google knows!) becomes possible, which is an incredibly powerful
> tool. Once you grok continuations you may never look back...

How does the presence of the optimization even allow the continuations
programming style to be used?  

Miguel.