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		diadara on Dec 4, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hy – A dialect of Lisp that’s embedded in Python https://github.com/hylang/hy/blob/master/docs/contrib/loop.r... I thought this is not possible in python. Can someone explain ? Python doesn't have tail call optimization and hy produces python AST. Am I missing something ? I tried reading through the source, but I am still a lisp noob. https://github.com/hylang/hy/blob/master/hy/contrib/loop.hy

Foxboron on Dec 4, 2014 [–]

The entry is misleading. We don't really do TCO. It's just a trampoline calling the loop/recur form until there is nothing left to produce.

Same solution clojure has, as the JVM dosn't allow for TCO.

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