[Python-Dev] Proper tail recursion

Christian Tismer tismer at stackless.com
Fri Jul 16 19:51:02 CEST 2004


Guido van Rossum wrote:

>>>Still -1.  I was understating my case: I find the "recursion is
>>>the basis of everything" attitude harmful.
>>
>>How can you then still implement ceval.c in a recursive fashion,
>>since ceval is the "basis of everything" ???

[and more such crap]

> Oh Christian, did you have a bad day again?

Yes, I had. Negotiations with the EU guys concerning
PyPy funding really puts me down. It moves on and on.

Please ignore the nonsense I wrote. I hope to avoid incidents
like these, but sometimes... ;-)

cheers - chris

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