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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE)
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On 2015-07-14, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:

> And yet, Python somehow manages to gain new features with each release.
>
> The reason why most proposals get rejected is because most proposals
> are bad. If every idea that came along just got accepted, we'd have a
> disastrous hodge-podge of a language.

And PHP already has that niche nailed down.

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