From: "Stephan Kämper" <Stephan.Kaemper@...>
Date: 2004-05-13T17:48:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is Ruby NOT tail recursive?

John Carter wrote:

> 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.

That question might be a candidate for the FAQ, wouldn't it?
The answer is here:
     http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/94033

Happy rubying

Stephan