Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > Tail call elimination is necessary to cope with a system of > programming that has deliberately excluded certain other options (eg > mutables, in pure functional languages),
Tail call elimination is necessary for the functional programming style. While Scheme strongly promotes it, functional programming style crops up in virtually all programming languages nowadays. > but is not as important in a more fully-featured language. It is not all that important in Python for idiomatic reasons, not for some "full-featuredness". > Scheme needs TCE because of the way you have to write code for Scheme > to be even capable of executing it; Python doesn't, because you can > write your code to not need TCE. You can write Sheme perfectly procedurally, but why would you do that when you have Python to satisfy your procedural urges? Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
