Stackless Python, Tail Recursion and Functional Programming

[beno]

At 08:01 AM 1/11/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>Christian Tismer is the man responsible for Stackless.
>
>You will be interested in this new announcement:
>
>http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2003-January/001964.html
>
>So you could reinforce your idea 'something that does tail recursions
>would be nice'...

So..my question du jour...

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Does stackless python optimize tail recursion?
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You seem to be saying it does, but would you come right out and say it? <g> 
The article you referenced doesn't say it, and another post indicates it 
doesn't have anything to do with tail recursion.
Thanks,
beno