I have never seen this referred to anything other than things like tail-call recursion, tail-call optimization, etc.

Languages like Python make implementing simple loops like:

    def loop():
        <whatever>
        loop()

impossible.

Python will reach a maximum recursion depth and error.

Why is this important? Like I said, it makes looping very easy. For example, actors can almost be trivially implementing in languages with tail-call recursion.

It’s not in Python because like most things in Python, van Rossum doesn’t like it because <reasons>.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13591970/does-python-opt...

There’s little point in having full traces of the data doing in and out of the tail-call loop is immutable, so you only really care about the current call of the function.