Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE)
Marko Rauhamaa
marko at pacujo.net
Wed Jul 15 06:55:57 EDT 2015
Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com>:
> On Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at 2:44:55 AM UTC-4, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> The other problem for tail call elimination is the requirement that
>> functions return None by default. Smooth tail call elimination would
>> require that Python leave the default return value unspecified.
>
> I don't understand this, can you explain more? Are you saying that the
> Python specification shouldn't specify what x becomes?:
>
> def who_knows():
> pass
>
> x = who_knows()
Yes, that's what I'm saying. The implementation would be free to assign
any value whatsoever to x.
Marko
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