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    <p>I doing something with a hierarchical data structure, and I've designed a group of methods to traverse/analyze it with indirect recursion as explained below.</p> <p>There are methods <code>a</code>, <code>b</code>, <code>c</code>, and <code>d</code>, all with a <code>Unit</code> return type. Method <code>a</code> is called first. Depending on the data it will do something and then either halt or call one of <code>b/c/d</code>. Same thing with each of b, c, and d -- each method may either halt or call any of the other 3 methods. So which methods are called and their order of execution will be unknown until runtime, and the recursion is not directly apparent because no method is directly calling itself (don't worry, every method will be commented to describe the circular/recursive nature of the calls).</p> <p>Each additional call to <code>a</code>, <code>b</code>, <code>c</code>, or <code>d</code> is the last thing to execute in each method, but it's not literally the last statement of each method; there will be an <code>if</code> or <code>case</code> statement that controls which one will be called.</p> <p>Is the Scala compiler able to analyze this multi-layered call chain and implement tail recursion for it, given that no method is directly calling itself?</p>
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