From: james_b <james_b@...>
Date: 2003-08-07T21:59:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Query

Robert Klemme wrote:
> <srijit@yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:221d8dbe.0308062037.2a5558f2@posting.google.com...
> 
>>Ruby is a nice and expressive language. Now my favourite Ruby site is
>>http://whytheluckystiff.net/articles/2003/08/04/rubyOneEightOh
>>
>>I have a query about Ruby
>>1) Like Python can I increase the maximum depth of Ruby Interpreter
>>Stack? This will help to calculate factorial(1000) recursively.
>>Without increasing the recursion limit, it will not possible to
>>calculate factorial(1000) recursively with Ruby 1.8 (Win 98). It is
>>possible to do the same with Python.
> 
> 
> Hmmm...  Calculating factorial recursively is really inefficient and after
> all, Ruby is not a functional language although it has some features of
> them

<snip/>


There were a few responses to  Srijit's question, all of them, it seems, 
explaining why he was solving the problem the "wrong" way.  None of the 
responses (unless I missed it, in which case I apologize) actually 
anaswered his original question.

So:  can one increase the maximum depth of the Ruby interpreter stack?


James