[TUHS] Re: A fuzzy awk.

[Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>]

Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> writes:

> On Tue, 21 May 2024, Paul Winalski wrote:
>
>> To take an example that really happened, a fuzz test consisting 
>> of 100 
>> nested parentheses caused an overflow in a parser table (it 
>> could only 
>> handle 50 nested parens).  Is that worth fixing?
>
> Well, they could be a rabid LISP programmer...

Just did a quick check of some of the ELisp packages on my system:

* For my own packages, the maximum was 10 closing parentheses.
* For the packages in my elpa/ directory, the maximum was 26 in 
  ducpel-glyphs.el, where they were part of a glyph, rather than 
  delimiting code. The next highest value was 16, in org.el and 
  magit-sequence.el.

i would suggest that any Lisp with more than a couple of dozen 
closing parentheses is in dire need of refactoring. Although of 
course someone who's rabid is probably not in the appropriate 
mental state for that. :-)


Alexis.