From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: zsh-workers-request@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by coral.primenet.com.au (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA03061 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 02:52:01 +1100 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA29027; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 10:33:22 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 10:33:22 -0500 (EST) From: Zoltan Hidvegi Message-Id: <199611201533.QAA04141@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> Subject: Re: local variable setting problem/bug In-Reply-To: from Hrvoje Niksic at "Nov 20, 96 03:02:02 am" To: hniksic@srce.hr (Hrvoje Niksic) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 16:33:36 +0100 (MET) Cc: rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary Phone: (36 1)2669833 ext: 2667, home phone: (36 1) 2752368 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL27 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"KneyP.0.T57.1Joao"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2439 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > Couldn't zsh check its recursion depth? It shouldn't be too hard to > implement, and would be a win in these cases. That was already discussed some time ago. The problem is that one may want to use recursive functions on purpose and an artificial limit is undesirable here. Zoltan