[Python-ideas] @return?

[Nick Coghlan]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> identify
>> what tools they need in the functools module in order to make Python
>> expressions Turing complete (you should be able to use functional
>> programming tricks to attain that without needing to introduce embedded
>> assignments).
> 
> Functional programming tricks used to achieve that
> typically rely a lot on recursion and tail call
> optimisation, which Python isn't likely to get.

Ah, good point.

Cheers,
Nick.

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