[GROOVY-246] Support tail recursion

• Type: Wish
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.1-beta-2
• Component/s: class generator
• Assignee: Jochen Theodorou
• Reporter: Brian McCallister
• Created: 07/Mar/04 16:50
• Updated: 20/May/11 09:21
• Resolved: 20/May/11 09:21

Description

Detect and convert tail recursion into a while loop:

#!/usr/bin/env groovy

def my_while(test, action) {
if (test()) action()
else return true
my_while(test, action)
}

count = 0;

my_test = {
return count < 1000000
}

my_while(my_test) {
count++
}

println "made it!"

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: GROOVY-753 complete parser