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From: "Warp" <warplayer@free.fr>
To: <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Stack Overflow... (recursion in try-statement)
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 03:01:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <004301c1eb2b$9f48e440$99da0e50@warp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1020423233831.10014A-100000@first.in-berlin.de>

> why does an stack overflow-error occur here?
> 
> let rec traversedir dir =
>           try ( [Unix.readdir dir] @ traversedir dir ) with
>           End_of_file -> [];;
> 
> 
> I have not tried it with very deep directories, so
> I did not expect such an error...
> 
> What is the problem here?

Perhaps he's looping because ".." is also a dir.
You should try to do some print to figure it out

Nicolas Cannasse

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-04-24  1:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-23 21:48 Oliver Bandel
2002-04-23 22:23 ` Will Benton
2002-04-23 22:50 ` Oliver Bandel
2002-04-23 23:25   ` John Prevost
2002-05-21 18:34     ` [Caml-list] Is CVS version of ocaml faster? John Max Skaller
2002-05-22  3:03       ` Jacques Garrigue
2002-05-22 16:29         ` John Max Skaller
2002-06-30 17:25     ` [Caml-list] ocamllex -- ambiguous regex John Max Skaller
2002-07-01 11:45       ` Xavier Leroy
2002-06-30 17:27     ` [Caml-list] Manual broken -- set John Max Skaller
2002-04-24  1:01 ` Warp [this message]
2002-04-24 13:22   ` [Caml-list] Stack Overflow... (recursion in try-statement) Oliver Bandel
2002-04-24  4:10 ` John Prevost
2002-04-24  4:52 ` Alan Schmitt
2002-04-24  5:31   ` Charles Martin
2002-04-24 13:25   ` Oliver Bandel

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