From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2009-03-08T23:16:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:22740] Re: Ruby 1.9.1 and tail recursion optimization

Hi,

At Sun, 8 Mar 2009 22:34:14 +0900,
Wolfgang N�dasi-Donner wrote in [ruby-core:22739]:
> I read one minute ago in German Ruby-Forum, that it isn't implemented in 
> Ruby 1.9.1. One main reason was, that it is not possible under JVM.

IIRC, the reason is that it changes the stack trace, and
probably would confuse debugging.

-- 
Nobu Nakada