[Python-ideas] @return?

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Apr 15 03:23:00 CEST 2010


Nick Coghlan wrote:
> identify
> what tools they need in the functools module in order to make Python
> expressions Turing complete (you should be able to use functional
> programming tricks to attain that without needing to introduce embedded
> assignments).

Functional programming tricks used to achieve that
typically rely a lot on recursion and tail call
optimisation, which Python isn't likely to get.

-- 
Greg



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