On 5/2/2011 9:14 AM, Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
On Sun, 01 May 2011 18:24:30 -0400, Terry Reedy
: Python does not do this automatically because 1) it can be a semantic : change under some circumstances; 2) one who wants the iterative version : can just as easily write it directly; That's the silliest argument I ever heard.
Calling something silly when you have not really read it and perhaps asked questions to really understand it is, to me, silly.
If you want a compiler that can introduce bugs into your program by doing what it thinks you meant, rather than what you said, don't use CPython.
: and 3) Python has a better way to : process collections that removes essentially all the boilerplate in the : recursive-call and while-loop versions:
To properly use modern Python, one should know and use for loops and iterators.
-- Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
