Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE)
Mark Lawrence
breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Jul 14 03:47:28 EDT 2015
On 14/07/2015 07:29, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Another point in favor of an explicit tail-call keyword. Then one
>>> couldn't make that mistake.
>>
>> How about "return"?
>
> How about "goto"? :-)
>
Why not "goto"? It's use is scattered throughout the cpython code, and
to my knowledge there's no paper that says *NEVER* use it.
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