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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 19:50:22 +0300
Subject: Re: Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE)
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Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:93936

Wouldn't it be possible to have like a dynamically
sized stack so that you can grow it endlessly
with some acceptable overhead..

That would pretty much take care of the stack-overflow
argument without many painful side effects on
the semantics at least..