On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Abdulaziz Ghuloum <[email protected]> wrote: > You mean making python properly tail recursive is hard? > I find that hard to believe. Handling tail calls cannot > be harder than handling nontail calls.
No, I am thinking about making the Python debugger (in the hypothetical case TCO were implemented) as smart as the Ikarus debugger. I have no idea if that could be easy or difficult, taking also in account speed and backward compatibility issues. Maybe is just lack of will. > Anyways, this is getting off topic. All I wanted to do was > to state some of the motivations for making the debugger. > [Your own posts were another motivation: you kept on saying > no stack trace this, no stack trace that, until I couldn't > take it anymore. :-) So thanks!] Be careful Aziz, do not encourage by solving my pet peeves, otherwise I will rant even more! ;-)
