The Directory Walker revisited

[Dar Scott]

On Monday, September 1, 2003, at 04:45 AM, wouter wrote:

> Upon examining the nice (recursive) directory walking script:
...
> But I watched it bump into the recursion-limit wall.

 From the Transcript Dictionary Entry:

> By default, the recursionLimit property is set to 1000000.

I assume values, context, and most things are not on the stack but are 
pointed to by internal values on the stack.  I could very well be 
wrong.  I would be surprised if a stack entry was 100 bytes but I would 
think it would be under 1K.  That means a depth limit of 1000 calls.  
This is all speculation.  Testing is left for the curious.

Now directories nested 1000 deep seems unusual.

Perhaps this is running into a first-rest nesting as well.  (I haven't 
looked at the latest of the script.)  Even so, that does seem strange.

Dar Scott