[Python-Dev] Proper tail recursion (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Jul 14 21:30:02 CEST 2004

Christopher T King wrote:

To tell the truth, I don't really have any immediate use for this functionality, either, but since it turned out to be so easy to implement, I ask, "why not?" ;)

The traditional answer to that question is "because Jython cannot support it".

* I know it breaks stack traces, but the final implementation will only be used when the -O flag is specified, or some other such indicator is set.

That would be bad. It would change the behaviour of programs, which should not happen for -O (except for the documented changes, of course, whose list should be short).

Regards, Martin

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