Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be> writes: > Op 07-10-13 19:15, Alain Ketterlin schreef:
[...] >> That's fine. My point was: you can't at the same time have full >> dynamicity *and* procedural optimizations (like tail call opt). >> Everybody should be clear about the trade-off. > > Your wrong. Full dynamics is not in contradiction with tail call > optimisation. Scheme has already done it for years. You can rebind > names to other functions in scheme and scheme still has working > tail call optimisatiosn. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_%28programming_language%29#Lexical_scope (first sentence, about variable bindings). -- Alain. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list