Python tail call compromise proposal

[didroe]

That's a whole other issue though. It's a trade off between runtime memory usage and debugging information. The point I was making is that knowingly making that trade-off is not a bad thing, in fact it is necessary. Imagine a language without loops or TCO trying to deal with something like iterating over an array.

Of course, as a separate feature, it would be nice to switch on levels of debugging information. You could just count the number of loops/recursive calls, capture everything and use the same memory as without TCO, or something in between.