From: John Carter Date: 2004-05-13T11:46:48+09:00 Subject: Re: Why is Ruby NOT tail recursive? On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Laza wrote: > I have just been reading a chapter on how to implement tail-recursiveness > in Lisp, and it seems simple enough. Why does not Ruby do it? It would be a nice to have, but on the other hand, converting a tail recursive call to a while loop is usually a very easy refactoring to make by hand. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : john.carter@tait.co.nz New Zealand The universe is absolutely plastered with the dashed lines exactly one space long.