The Directory Walker revisited

[Dar Scott]

On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 02:03 AM, wouter wrote:

>> On Wednesday, September 3, 2003, at 03:52 PM, wouter wrote:
>>
>>>>   repeat with x =  2 to the number of lines of tDirList
>>>>     directoryWalk (whatFolder & "/" & (line x of tDirList))
>>>>   end repeat
>> ...
>>> I am very sorry to inform you that this one you adapted from David
>>> Vaughn, is also bumping into the recursionLimit.
>>
>> Very strange.  I assume you don't have folders nested 700 deep.  Maybe
>> something in the script increases the stack frame size.
>
> :^)) You keep persitent on the deepness of the directory.

:-)  I think it key.

> I used my root Library folder on a Mac OS X volume to run tests
>  and the deepest folder is 18 levels deep.
> The recursiveLimit has only to do by how many times the handler
> calls itself from within itself without ending itself (nested calls) 
> before
> its starts running itself again  (kind of an egocentric handler)

Then I am concerned.

 From looking at that code and similar code, the handler calls itself 
only 19 times.  That should not hit the recursion limit.  Something 
else is wrong.

What Rev version and OS are you using?  Maybe some beta versions went 
out as debug builds.

Even so, I doubt this would be enough to cause this.  Something is 
wrong.

I would not be surprised if my apps without recursion would hit 19 
deep.  Many of my recursive functions typically hit 32.

Dar Scott