On Tue, May 21, 2024, 11:08 PM Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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. :-)
>

That's what ']' is for.

Warner

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