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A tail calling interpreter for Python (already landed in CPython)

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122 points phsilva | 2 comments | 17 Feb 25 07:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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thunkingdeep ◴[20 Feb 25 03:19 UTC] No.43110710[source]▶
This does NOT mean Python will get Tail Call Optimization, as Guido cannot be shown The Light, and has decided.
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rpcope1 ◴[20 Feb 25 03:37 UTC] No.43110815[source]▶
That's probably one of the more frustrating things about Python. Each release it gets all sorts of questionable new syntax (including the very strange pattern matching "feature" that kind of sucks compared to something like Erlang or Scala), but we never get real useful quality of life improvements for basic functional programming like TCO or multi line lambdas
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1. pinoy420 ◴[20 Feb 25 07:13 UTC] No.43111956[source]▶
The choice of “unique” verbs is weird too. Case match. Try except?
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2. maleldil ◴[20 Feb 25 12:19 UTC] No.43113833[source]▶
`match/case` looks absolutely fine to me. What's the problem?

`try/except` is definitely weird, though.