On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]<simetrical%[email protected]> > wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Steve Bennett<[email protected]> wrote: > > So: > > 1) The chosen language will support iteration over finite sets > > 2) Could it support general iteration, recursion etc? > > 3) If so, are there any good mechanisms for limiting the > > destrutiveness of an infinite loop? > > You don't really need an infinite loop. DoS would work fine if you > can have any loop. Even with just foreach: > > foreach(array(1,2)as $x1)foreach(array(1,2)as $x2).... > > A few dozen of those in a row will give you a nice short bit of code > that may as well run forever. > You can make some kind of counter, which gets incremented each foreach/while/for loop. If it reaches 200 (or whatever), execution is stopped. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
