Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE)

[Antoon Pardon]

On 07/16/2015 01:45 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Antoon Pardon
> <antoon.pardon at rece.vub.ac.be> wrote:
>>
>> I would say, that someone should get over himself.
>> Traceback are not the only or even the most useful
>> tool for debugging code. The current stack trace
>> doesn't even contain the value's of the variables
>> on the stack. So in case of Terry Reedy's example
>> that stack trace would IMO have been next to useless.
> Actually, they do contain all of that (at least, they do in Py3 - not
> sure about Py2 as I haven't checked). You can poke around with the
> locals at every point on the stack:

Fine, I should have been more clear.

The stack trace as it is generally produced on stderr after an uncought
exception, doesn't contain the values of the variables on the stack.

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Antoon Pardon