From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17908 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2000 08:57:36 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 18 Aug 2000 08:57:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 17138 invoked by alias); 18 Aug 2000 08:57:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 12675 Received: (qmail 17129 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2000 08:57:19 -0000 Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 09:56:33 +0100 From: Peter Stephenson Subject: Re: 3.0.8 math bug? In-reply-to: "Your message of Fri, 18 Aug 2000 09:00:01 +0200." <200008180700.JAA13467@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk (Zsh hackers list) Message-id: <0FZH009JKCU9RU@la-la.cambridgesiliconradio.com> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sven wrote: > > Hence in 3.1.somethingmorethan6butIforgetwhat, an arbitrary limit on the > > depth of math recursion was imposed, and you get: > > > > > zsh: math recursion limit exceeded > > Btw, I wasn't happy about this behaviour at that time, but then I > tried it with ksh and bash and both of them do the same as 3.1.x, > i.e. they report an recursion-too-deep error. I haven't tried which > shell allows the deepest recursion, though. When we have a new system for storing parameters (hur, hur) we could do the following: mark a parameter as in use as aliases do, then if they come up for retrieval while they're still marked, we just return zero. -- Peter Stephenson Cambridge Silicon Radio, Unit 300, Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 0XL, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070