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I'm ashamed to admit that I actually learnt something new from this (the @tailcall thing)

• pmiller2 17y ago
  You should never be ashamed to admit ignorance, especially after it's been cured. :-)
  • pgbovine 17y ago
    wait, is @tailcall part of the Python standard library? or just something the author made-up for illustrative purposes?
    • notaddicted 17y ago
      I just tried typing it into the interpreter in 2.6 and 3, it doesn't appear to exist.
    • bdr 17y ago
      made up http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2009/04/final-words-on-tail-calls.html http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2009/04/final-words-on-tail-...
      • sophacles 17y ago
        There are a few /very/ hacky @tailcall decorators floating around the web. In some cases they actually speed things up some small amount. A year or two ago there was a bug furor over bytecode hacking -- such things were the result :)
    • micheles 17y ago
      You can find a version of tailcall in the Python cookbook or here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/decorator#dealing-with-third-party-decorators http://pypi.python.org/pypi/decorator#dealing-with-third-par...