On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 08:12:22PM -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > The irony of this is that memoizing 'recursive' functions with a > decorator depends on the fact the Python does not have truly recursive > functions. A function cannot call itself directly.
I wonder what exactly is meant by that last sentence: * It doesn't happen (since the function name is evaluated to find the function to be called, as you explained). or * Even if a variable pointing directly to the function were provided (as a global or function argument), calling it is not supposed to work (for some reason). ?? Ciao, -- FA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
