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From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: 3.0.8 math bug?
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 09:00:01 +0200 (MET DST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200008180700.JAA13467@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Bart Schaefer's message of Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:53:42 -0700 (PDT)


Bart Schaefer wrote:

> ...
> 
> The semantic answer is "because the value of a variable evaluated in math
> context is treated as an expression, and that expression is itself
> evaluated."
> 
> ...
> 
> 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.

Bye
 Sven


--
Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de


             reply	other threads:[~2000-08-18  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-08-18  7:00 Sven Wischnowsky [this message]
2000-08-18  8:56 ` Peter Stephenson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-08-17 17:54 Dan Nelson
2000-08-17 20:53 ` Bart Schaefer

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