"Pekka Karjalainen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Python doesn't do any kind of tail recursion optimization by default > because Guido has decided it shouldn't (at least so far). I'm sure it has > been discussed in detail in Python development forums & lists, but I > don't know those details. Giving Python's late name resolution, the transformation would be a change in semantics. Something might be proposed for 3.0. Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
