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Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 00:27:03 +1000
Subject: Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 12:21 AM, Antoon Pardon
<antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> wrote:
>> My point was that I have yet to see
>> anything that demands TCO and can't be algorithmically improved.
>
> And how is this point relevant? Why should I care about what you have
> not seen? Will it give me new insights about my original question in
> this thread?

I guess you shouldn't care, because to you, functional programming is
an end in itself, XKCD 1270 style. You could alternatively show an
example, if there are any, but if you'd rather just live the
functional life, who am I to stop you?

Go ahead. Write LISP code that runs in the Python interpreter, and
then bemoan the stack limit. Meanwhile, I'll write Python code.

ChrisA