Re: call_function() and $bf_FOO()

• Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 21:56:40 PDT
• From:
  Don Schwarz <darkowl@darkowl.pr.mcs.net>
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  darkowl@mcs.net
• cc: moo-cows@parc.xerox.com
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• In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960428015057.00697174@pop.kaiwan.com>

On Sat, 27 Apr 1996 slayer@kaiwan.com wrote:

> >I had thought of that, but I assumed this would be taken care of with
> >DEFAULT_MAX_STACK_DEPTH the same way regular verb calls are.
> but then the function doesn't get called at all. Say I had a #0:"bf_fileread
> bf_fileextract bf_filegrep [...]" and had this:
> 
> [...]
> return call_function(verb[4..$],@args);
> endif
> 
> Yeah, I know this doesn't do permissions checks, but you get the idea,
> anyway the builtin will never get called since it'll keep calling itself
> over and over again.
> 
So?   If this happens, it obviously means something was programmed
incorrectly and should raise an E_MAXREC.  What else could it do?
                                                   --Dark_Owl

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• From: Rich Connamacher <phantom@baymoo.sfsu.edu>

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