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Re: why no result & no error from this recursion

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• Subject: [mg82603] Re: why no result & no error from this recursion
• From: Jon Harrop <jon at ffconsultancy.com>
• Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:15:43 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <200710190904.FAA05304@smc.vnet.net> <200710200949.FAA28706@smc.vnet.net> <ffed00$bet$1@smc.vnet.net>

Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> But I've now verified that the kernel definitely quit.  At least that's
> what I surmise by going to Evaluation -> Quit Kernel and seeing that the
> Local kernel was grayed out, indicating it was no longer running.

The kernel crashed. This was just discussed on this mailing list under the
subject "Recursion limit: a good idea to ignore?". If you use a higher
$RecursionLimit then the kernel will crash, so rewrite your program rather
than raising it.

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

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  • why no result & no error from this recursion
    • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray@math.umass.edu>
  • Re: why no result & no error from this recursion
    • From: Sseziwa Mukasa <mukasa@jeol.com>