On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 06:43:42 +0100, Paul Rudin <paul.nos...@rudin.co.uk> wrote: : Writing recurive code is acceptable and is a nice clear way of : expressing things when you have naturally recursive data structures, and : can lead to perfectly good compiled code. The problem in CPython is the : lack of tail optimization, so it's not a good idea for python . Some : language standards guarantee tail optimization...
Well, if you run into a case where tail optimisation really makes a difference, you probably want to reimplement it for a compiler that guarantees tail optimisation, rather than reimplement it without recursion within python. -- :-- Hans Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
