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

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Tue Jul 20 16:15:27 CEST 2004

Chris King <colanderman at gmail.com> writes:

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:17:23 -0700, Michael Chermside <mcherm at mcherm.com> wrote:

As one of the people who has been defending this proposal, let me now suggest that we just drop the idea. Agreed. Thanks to everyone who helped defend it though, and thanks to others for providing obective feedback! Your original change can be kept around as a patch that people can apply for themselves if they want to. I expect that anyone who really cared would be using stackless anyway. I think it would actually even be possible to turn it into an extension module, but that's a project for another day ;)

I think Armin Rigo has already done that with 'greenlets':

http://www.stackless.com/pipermail/stackless-dev/2004-March/000057.html

I don't pretend to understand...

Cheers, mwh

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