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in thread No recursion depth limit?

Fifteen and counting. The reason is neatly summed up by one of the AnonymousMonkies above: Never use recursion is terrible, incurious advice. Even Don't use recursion for this problem is awful absent context, and unwelcome absent a demonstrated alternative.

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Re^4: No recursion depth limit?
by Yary (Pilgrim) on Sep 02, 2015 at 15:46 UTC
    I did like the Bathysphere anecdote, which was new to me, and took it in the spirit of "add a limit, if you're worried about recursion depth." I admit it may not have been Sun's intent! And I'm fine with everyone voting their conscience.

      In the same way that our brain's facial recognition logic falsely recognizes faces in burnt toast, your brain's programming skill is falsely attributing sensibility to S-Dial's perseveration and echolalia.