"Jason Meade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My name's Jason. I'm new to Scheme, but am definitely a fan! It seems
> to me that extensible and embeddable frameworks are the new
> programming model for the 21st century. I'd like to see guile grow in
> this respect, and am able to contribute however possible. :)
Nice to meet you!
> Initially, I'd like to take a look at why guile bombs on recursive
> algorithms. For example:
>
> (define fact
> (lambda (n)
> (cond
> ((= n 1) 1)
> (else
> (* n (fact (- n 1)))))))
>
> guile> (fact 69)
> 171122452428141311372468338881272839092270544893520369393648040923257279754140647424000000000000000
> guile> (fact 70)
> ERROR: Stack overflow
> ABORT: (stack-overflow)
This is a feature: if you write a program by mistake that recurses
forever using more and more stack, Guile will catch it for you.
If you'd like to disable this checking, just say (debug-set! stack 0).
Regards,
Neil
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