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Wed May 12 22:15:35 EDT 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-May/044790.html

Jeremy Hylton <jeremy at alum.mit.edu>:

> I think it would only need to check that any path through the loop has a no
> net effect on stack depth -- before branching back to the beginning of the
> loop, it must pop everything it pushed.

If the branching is sufficiently spaghettoid, it might have
trouble identifying any coherent loops or paths.

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