[Python-Dev] Proper tail recursion

[Guido van Rossum]

> > I also haven't seen the use case that requires this and couldn't
> > easily be fixed by changing the data structure or code slightly.
> > (Andrew Koenig's theoretical objections don't count as use cases.)
> 
> Didn't we just hear that this problem affects pickling?

That's a rather special case, and unless you have a trick to eliminate
tail recursion C too, it won't help us much.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)