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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE)
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:52:21 +1200
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Marko Rauhamaa wrote:

> It might even be tail-call optimized by Python. Only you can't count on
> it because the language spec doesn't guarantee it.

The language spec might permit it, but the BDFL has
explicitly expressed a dislike for the idea of implicit
tail call removal, so it's unlikely to ever happen
in CPython.

-- 
Greg