Re: call_function() and $bf_FOO()

• Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 22:29:24 PDT
• From:
  Rich Connamacher <phantom@baymoo.sfsu.edu>
• cc: slayer@kaiwan.com, moo-cows@parc.xerox.com
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• In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960427234632.5444A-100000@darkowl.pr.mcs.net>

On Sat, 27 Apr 1996, Don Schwarz wrote:

> 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

I'm sorry, but you lost me a long time ago.  Builtins that are called 
from #0 don't get passed through the wrappers, and that includes 
call_function().  Is there something I missed?

• Re: call_function() and $bf_FOO()
• From: Don Schwarz <darkowl@darkowl.pr.mcs.net>

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