returning none when it should be returning a list?

[Christos Georgiou]

On 2 May 2006 03:03:45 -0700, rumours say that "Iain King"
<iainking at gmail.com> might have written:


>John Machin wrote:
>>
>> # Doh! Looks like recursion not necessary. Google 'eliminate tail
>> recursion' :-)

>
>I did, and found this:
>http://www.biglist.com/lists/dssslist/archives/199907/msg00389.html
>which explains that the Scheme compiler optimises (obvious) tail
>recursion into iterative code.  I'm wondering if the python compiler
>does the same?

No, it doesn't so far.

More info:

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