On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 1:37 AM, <jennyfurta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry I am missing a subtle point: Isnt 1+ self.soldiersVsDefenders... ending > up calling 1.__add__(self.soldiersVsDefenders...)?
I think his point is that it is, in effect, doing that; but honestly, calling this a tail call into the int+int addition function is pretty pointless. I mean, sure, it's technically a sort of tail call, but it's definitely not tail recursion, and it's such a trivial operation (adding one to a probably-small number) that it's hardly even worth mentioning. The main point of tail recursion is how it interacts with the self-call, and that's not the tail call here. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
