I will insist here :P. What is the desired behavior for this situation? So if it is an Issue, I may open an entry in the tracker...
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K <[email protected]>wrote: > I asked this some time back. One dark side of doing this is that it *can* > result in unwanted/inappropriate failures. In practice though, Dolphin's > limits on the stack has been a good thing. > > > > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [ > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Guillermo Polito > [[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 11:44 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Pharo-project] Infinite recursion > > Hi, > > Yesterday I got into an infinite recursion, because of adding an ordered > collection into itself. And #hash is defined in terms of its containees, > hehe. > > Why I did that? It doesn't really matters. I was testing a little project > I'm doing for the University. > > So I came into an infinite recursion, which didn't stop until the VM run > out of memory... And the question is.. Shouldn't it throw an error like a > stack overflow when we run into those cases? > > Cheers, > Guille > >
