Recursive Limit Behavior (was The Directory Walker revisited)

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Mon Sep 1 20:11:01 EDT 2003


On Monday, September 1, 2003, at 06:05 PM, Dar Scott wrote:

> On Monday, September 1, 2003, at 04:45 AM, wouter wrote:
>> But I watched it bump into the recursion-limit wall.
...
>  Testing is left for the curious.

OK.  I'm more than curious.

Yikes!  You didn't say the wall was a lock-up!  With a small recursive 
function I hit the wall at about 724 and Revolution locked up.  I added 
some local variables, but that didn't seem to affect it.

I expected a simple throw.

I'm on Revolution 2.1 on OS X.

Dar Scott





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