On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:45:30 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote: > morphex <morp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>While we're on the subject, wouldn't it be nice to have some cap there >>so that it isn't possible to more or less block the system with large >>exponentiation? > > There IS a cap. It's called the "MemoryError" exception. > > But, seriously, what would you have it do instead?
One day late: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/04/01/2230220/erlang-getting-too- big-to-fail-process-flag -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list