Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion)

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From	Terry Michaels <cmhoward@frigidcode.com>
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I did some googling to find out if Ruby supports tail call optimization,
as I wanted to write tail-recursive functions. All posts I found
indicated that 1.9 supports this, but it is not enabled by default.
However, all those posts were about two years old, so I'm wondering what
is the current situation: do I still need to upgrade to 1.9 to get that
capability? Or is there something in 1.8 I can enable?

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Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) Terry Michaels <cmhoward@frigidcode.com> - 2011-04-18 00:59 -0500
  Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-18 12:29 -0500
    Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-18 18:10 +0000
      Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) Louis-Philippe <default@spiralix.org> - 2011-04-18 15:40 -0500
        Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-18 22:27 +0000
          Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) Louis-Philippe <default@spiralix.org> - 2011-04-19 07:28 -0500
            Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-20 04:12 +0000
              Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-20 04:30 +0000
                Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-20 06:37 -0500
        Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) Vincent Manis <vmanis@telus.net> - 2011-04-18 19:41 -0500
          Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) Steve Klabnik <steve@steveklabnik.com> - 2011-04-18 20:42 -0500
            Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) Vincent Manis <vmanis@telus.net> - 2011-04-18 21:51 -0500
              Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) Michael Edgar <adgar@carboni.ca> - 2011-04-18 22:12 -0500
              Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) Steve Klabnik <steve@steveklabnik.com> - 2011-04-19 08:48 -0500
                Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> - 2011-04-19 08:56 -0500
                Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) Steve Klabnik <steve@steveklabnik.com> - 2011-04-19 10:07 -0500
  Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) Steve Klabnik <steve@steveklabnik.com> - 2011-04-18 12:39 -0500

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