Michael T. Richter
1/28/2008 11:57:00 PM
> Does ruby implement tail call elimination?
~ $ irb
irb(main):001:0> def loop
irb(main):002:1> loop
irb(main):003:1> end
=> nil
irb(main):004:0> loop
SystemStackError: stack level too deep
from (irb):2:in `loop'
from (irb):2:in `loop'
from (irb):4
irb(main):005:0>
Doesn't look like it, no.
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