in reply to Re: Getting size of call stack
in thread Getting size of call stack

Yes, this works fine. I tweaked it a bit, setting $depth to -1 and putting the code in a GetCallStackDepth sub. Cool!

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Re: Re: Re: Getting size of call stack
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 07, 2003 at 17:38 UTC
    I tweaked it a bit, setting $depth to -1

    Wouldn't your subroutine always return -1? Shouldn't your GetCallStackDepth look more like:

    sub GetCallStackDepth { my $depth = 1; # 0 is this sub, why bother checking it? $depth++ while caller($depth); return $depth - 1; }
      Wouldn't your subroutine always return -1?

      Duh. Yes, of course. Returning $depth - 1 is what I actually did, and on my way from the editor to here, I thought, "Hey, I can save a step by just initializing $depth to -1 to begin with!". And I wrote it down before I actually tried it.

      Busted...

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