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Re: Re: why no result & no error from this recursion

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  • Subject: [mg82560] Re: Re: why no result & no error from this recursion
  • From: Jon Harrop <jon at ffconsultancy.com>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:36:01 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <ff9t3q$6bp$1@smc.vnet.net> <200710200958.FAA28982@smc.vnet.net> <ffhr87$4s3$1@smc.vnet.net>

Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> Yes, and it suddenly quits the kernel -- the command line window that
> opened when I started the kernel disappears.

Right. If you use the GUI front end then you don't get to see that: all you
can infer is that the kernel has lost all information but, in fact, it
silently died and was silently restarted.

This is precisely why you should not increase $RecursionLimit.

-- 
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?u


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