Terry Reedy wrote: > In Python, you have a choice of recursion (normal or tail)
Please explain this. I remember reading on this newsgroup that an advantage of ruby (wrt python) is that ruby has tail recursion, implying that python does not. Does python have fully optimized tail recursion as described in the tail recursion Wikipedia entry? Under what circumstances can one count on the python interpreter recognizing the possibility for optimized tail recursion? James ===== Disclaimer: Mention of more than one programming language in post does not imply author's desire to begin language v. language holy battle. The author does not program in [some or all of the other languages mentioned aside from the language topical to the newsgroup] and has no opinions on the merits or shortcomings of said language or languages. ===== -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
