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
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Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de
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2000-08-18 7:00 Sven Wischnowsky [this message]
2000-08-18 8:56 ` Peter Stephenson
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2000-08-17 17:54 Dan Nelson
2000-08-17 20:53 ` Bart Schaefer
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