On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 11:25 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > (Also, side point: Python can't actually optimize the above function, > because it actually means "call quicksort, then discard its return > value and return None". A true tail call has to return the result of > the recursive call, and Python lacks a way to say "this function will > always return None". But that's trivial.)
Another point in favor of an explicit tail-call keyword. Then one couldn't make that mistake. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
