[Python-ideas] Tail recursion elimination

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Joao S. O. Bueno writes:

 > My suggestion is simply to discard the current frame before
 > building the frame for the call. (Maybe adding some logging
 > information on this next frame so that the stack trace could be
 > complete)

That way lies madness.  The logging information needs to be stored
somewhere.  If it's to be "complete", it may as well be in ... wait
for it ... a stack frame.