[Python-ideas] A Continuations Compromise in Python

[Adam Olsen]

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 6:26 PM, John Graham <john.a.graham at gmail.com> wrote:
> As I recall, a few people have advocated a TCO decorator, which I
> imagine would look a lot like your trampoline decorator, and it
> usually falls apart in corner cases.  I don't have any examples with
> me though.  I do have a question though, if recursive algorithms are
> generally frowned upon (and I'd say, without TCO, anything too complex
> hits the stack quick) why is recursion even supported?  What is the
> 'Pythonic' use of recursion?

There's many forms of recursion that do not involve unbounded
recursion.  Consider a call to len() that calls len() on another
object.


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Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus