Re: [Chicken-users] Unbounded stack growth

2012-07-12 Thread cjtenny
At the risk of charging in like an entire stampede of cluelessness, Quoting Matthew Flatt mfl...@cs.utah.edu: At Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:25:44 +0900, Alex Shinn wrote: I disagree - I think a stack grown too large is likely indicative of a programming error, or at the very least an inefficient

Re: [Chicken-users] Unbounded stack growth

2012-07-12 Thread Alex Queiroz
Hallo, On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:25 AM, Alex Shinn alexsh...@gmail.com wrote: I disagree - I think a stack grown too large is likely indicative of a programming error, or at the very least an inefficient algorithm. In the general case I want my programs to be able to allocate as much heap

Re: [Chicken-users] Unbounded stack growth

2012-07-12 Thread Alex Shinn
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Alex Queiroz asand...@gmail.com wrote: Hallo, On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:25 AM, Alex Shinn alexsh...@gmail.com wrote: I disagree - I think a stack grown too large is likely indicative of a programming error, or at the very least an inefficient algorithm. In

Re: [Chicken-users] Unbounded stack growth

2012-07-12 Thread Alex Queiroz
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Alex Shinn alexsh...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, if you've got a magical Scheme compiler that can read my mind and fix all my bugs for me I'll switch right now! :) Are you really saying that it is ok for a Scheme program to crash with a segmentation fault

Re: [Chicken-users] Unbounded stack growth

2012-07-12 Thread Alex Shinn
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Alex Queiroz asand...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Alex Shinn alexsh...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, if you've got a magical Scheme compiler that can read my mind and fix all my bugs for me I'll switch right now! :) Are you really saying