On Wed, Oct 2, 2013, at 9:32, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Python is not as aggressively functional as (say) Haskell, but it is > surely an exaggeration to suggest that the failure to include tail call > optimization means that Python "rejects" functional programming styles. > You can still write you code in a functional style, it just won't be as > heavily optimized.
IMO, tail call optimization is essential to writing in a functional style, since otherwise you end up with a stack overflow error on any input above a trivial size. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
