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How fitting that a discussion about recursion gets to over 12 levels of depth! ;-)

I must say that I'm surprised that the difference between recursion and iteration is as small as it is in this case. The problem I have had in some cases, though, is that perl starts to complain about deep recursion when I try recursive algorithms that go just one or two thousand levels down...

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Re^14: Specializing Functions with Currying
by stvn (Monsignor) on Aug 07, 2004 at 03:11 UTC
    How fitting that a discussion about recursion gets to over 12 levels of depth! ;-)

    I will see your 13, and take it one more level down ;- )

    The problem I have had in some cases, though, is that perl starts to complain about deep recursion when I try recursive algorithms that go just one or two thousand levels down...

    FWIK, Perl's deep recursion error is a somewhat arbitrary number (I think its actually set to 1000), and has no real bearing on perl's ability to keep recursing (which is only limited to the physical resources (memory/CPU/disk-swap) available for it to consume). And I believe that someone once told me you can easily change that number and recomplile perl if you need more.

    -stvn
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      It is 100. grep for sub_crush_depth.
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