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Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination

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On 07/16/2015 08:58 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Nice of you to illustrate how being pedantic about something, can
>> make a response useless with regard to the intended original question.
> Just because your intention in giving that code was X, doesn't mean that
> others cannot use that code to also do Y.
>
> Your example of a mutually recursive pair of functions is perfectly fine as
> a toy example to demonstrate a point. But the fact that people can only
> come up with toy examples to demonstrate the uses of unbounded recursion is
> telling. That's *my* point. It's orthogonal to your point.

We know your point. You have repeated it often enough. There is no need
to keep bringing it up and certainly not where your point is irrelevant.

People are allowed to not care about your point. People may think it is
not worth the trouble trying to convince people who are skeptical and
may choose to discuss possible directions with people who are likewise 
intressed.

So why do you find it necessary to appear here and repeat your point,
that is already known, but is not cared about much and irrelevant here.


>> I'm not here to satisfy your or anyone else's curiosity. 
> Fair enough.
>
> What are you here for? When you complain that Python doesn't have TCO, is
> your intent to persuade people that it should, with the ultimate aim to
> changing Python so that it gains TCO? If not, then what?

I don't complain that Python doesn't have TCO. I am intressed in the subject
and I'm willing to discuss the pro and cons, how it could be simulated, and
how good some arguments for or against it are. But I don't think any outcome
here will have much weight in getting it implemented and although I would
prefer having it, I can perfectly live without. So don't translate my
interest in the subject into a complaint about python not having it.

I'm also not interrested in convincing people who show a dislike for it.
If the toy examples here, don't ignite a spark of imagination about how
in some circumstance this could be useful for you, then I am not interessed
in showing you.

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A new module for performing tail-call elimination "Th. Baruchel" <baruchel@no.spam.gmx.dot.com> - 2015-07-13 15:44 +0000
  Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-07-15 11:29 +0200
    Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-07-16 18:07 +1000
      Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> - 2015-07-16 10:13 +0100
      Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> - 2015-07-16 10:28 +0100
        Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-07-16 12:56 +0300
      Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-07-16 12:41 +0200
        Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-07-17 04:58 +1000
          Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-07-17 11:00 +0200
      Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-16 21:11 +1000
      Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Jeremy Sanders <jeremy@jeremysanders.net> - 2015-07-16 13:29 +0200
      Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-07-16 15:35 +0200
      Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-16 23:47 +1000
        Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-07-17 20:06 -0700
      Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-07-16 16:21 +0200
      Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-17 00:27 +1000
      Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-07-16 17:14 +0200
      Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-07-16 10:17 -0600
      Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2015-07-16 10:54 -0700
      Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2015-07-16 11:02 -0700
      Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-07-16 15:45 -0400
      Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2015-07-16 12:58 -0700
      Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> - 2015-07-17 09:57 +0100
    Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Alain Ketterlin <alain@universite-de-strasbourg.fr.invalid> - 2015-07-16 13:23 +0200
  Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-07-15 17:19 -0400
  Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-07-16 09:45 +0200
  Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-07-16 15:34 -0400
    Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-07-16 22:45 +0300
      Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-07-17 15:47 -0400
        Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-07-17 23:55 +0300
          Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-07-17 20:40 -0400
            Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-07-19 10:39 +1200
          Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-18 10:47 +1000
          Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-07-19 10:39 +1200
      Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-07-19 10:39 +1200
        Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-07-19 01:09 +0100
        Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-07-19 01:19 +0100
        Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-07-19 09:29 +0300
  Re: A new module for performing tail-call elimination Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-07-17 10:06 +0200

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