Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu>: > On 7/16/2015 3:45 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> Nobody seemed to notice that I just posted a fairly typical tail call >> function: > > Because non-recursive tail calls are completely normal.
I don't know how recursion makes a difference but that one did happen to be recursive. It could easily have been replaced with a while loop but there were good aesthetic reasons to leave it recursive. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list