From: Nobuyoshi Nakada Date: 2009-03-09T09:51:03+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:22766] Re: [Feature #1256] Add constant TAILRECURSION to let a program recognize if tail recursion optimization is implemented Hi, At Mon, 9 Mar 2009 02:41:55 +0900, Wolfgang N�dasi-Donner wrote in [ruby-core:22748]: > Tail recursion optimization is an implementation detail and > not a language feature in general. I propose to supply a > constant TAILRECURSION, which will be set to "true" if this > feature is implemented, otherwise "false". RubyVM::InstructionSequence.compile_option[:tailcall_optimization] -- Nobu Nakada