On Wed, Apr 6, 2016, at 14:23, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > > > Plus, anyone could implement a Python interpreter with TCE. > > Tricky in practice because None is the default return value. > > If the programmer were careful to return the value of the tail call, it > can be eliminated.
Well, the interpreter can know that the calling function doesn't return anything (returns None). Maybe it could pass a secret argument to the called function telling it not to return its value and to return None instead. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
