Paul Rubin a écrit : > Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Strictly speaking, only first-class functions are required, and >>tail-recursion optimisation is only an implentation detail. Now it's >>obvious that when it comes to real-life-size programs, this is a >>*very* important detail !-) > > > I don't buy this.
Fine - I'm not trying to sell it !-) > One of my favorite quotes about specifications > (http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/drdobbs-interview.html): > (snip). From a purely logical POV, the fact that a stack implementation has constant-time access or not is totally irrelevant (real-time problems set aside). This doesn't mean it's not important in practice. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list