On Jun 9, 12:16 pm, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Proof by rumour? You can use first class continuations in Ruby to eliminate tail calls in and define higher order function wrappers ( like Python decorators ). But I wouldn't call this "fully optimized". > Does python have fully optimized tail recursion as > described in the tail recursion Wikipedia entry? No. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
