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Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:41:55 +0200
From: "Richard Hartmann" <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
To: "Peter Stephenson" <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: Bug(?) in builtin r
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On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 19:27, Peter Stephenson
<p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> wrote:

> We need an error message, not an essay, which is what the documentation
> is for,

Agreed.


> but if there's a more specific short message I can use that,
> such as for example "current history line would cause recursion".

What about 'Using current history line would recurse endlessly'?
Optionally with 'aborting' before or after.


Richard