[Python-Dev] Proper tail recursion

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Andrew Koenig wrote:
> So I agree that recursion is not the basis of everything--but it is the
> basis of some things, and I would like to be able to express those things
> recursively without having to worry about the implementation stopping me.  I
> understand that the existence of Jython may make this wish impossible to
> achieve in practice, but it's still there.

Interestingly enough, the .NET VM (i.e. MSIL) supports tail recursion 
explicitly by means of opcodes (e.g. tail.callvirt in addition
to callvirt).

Regards,
Martin