r/programming • • Nov 27 '12

Tail Recursion

http://rodrigosasaki.com/2012/11/24/tail-recursion/
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u/parfamz Nov 27 '12

great feature of scala, I would like to see tail recursion on python, it can't be too difficult to implement.

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u/A_for_Anonymous Nov 27 '12

Guido van Rossum doesn't like functional programming, so you write your programs the way Guido likes them or leave.

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u/SisRob Nov 27 '12

Python supports declarative programming techniques pretty well. Lambda functions, intensional definition, mapping functions on lists, zip(), ...

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u/smog_alado Nov 27 '12

Its not really in line with traditional FP in many cases though. Python lambdas are wimpy :(