[bmitc]

I have never seen this referred to anything other than things like tail-call recursion, tail-call optimization, etc.

Languages like Python make implementing simple loops like:

    def loop():
        <whatever>
        loop()

impossible.

Python will reach a maximum recursion depth and error.

Why is this important? Like I said, it makes looping very easy. For example, actors can almost be trivially implementing in languages with tail-call recursion.

It’s not in Python because like most things in Python, van Rossum doesn’t like it because <reasons>.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13591970/does-python-opt...

There’s little point in having full traces of the data doing in and out of the tail-call loop is immutable, so you only really care about the current call of the function.

[Terry_Roll]

<goes away to find out what if its in my preferred language & tool>

Its not something I've every heard of before, I guess its peculiar to Python though but dont most languages have some eccentricity?

[travv0]

It's absolutely not peculiar to Python, it's something that every single language implementation has to make a decision on one way or the other.

Here's an SO answer from 2008 about how to enable TCO in various C and C++ compilers: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34125/which-if-any-c-com...

There are many things both you and I have never heard of before. That's normal.