[Python-ideas] @return?
Nick Coghlan
ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Apr 15 16:30:00 CEST 2010
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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