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		scott_s on April 22, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tail Recursion Elimination It's not a "bug" if the behavior is intended. I just tested the example with Version 2.5, and it returns 4. Version 2.2.2 is over six years old: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.2.2/

pauldino on April 22, 2009 [–]

FWIW, both Scheme and JavaScript have the same behavior as Python 2.5

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