On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 03:34 am, Joonas Liik wrote: > Now i admit that it is possible to have infinite recursion but it is > also possiblew to have infinite loops. and we don't kill your code > after 1000 iterations of a while loop so why should we treat recursion > any differently?
Because a while loop which repeats to many times is annoying but harmless, but a function that recurses too many times will blow up the stack and cause a seg fault, possibly executing arbitrary memory as code. You want malware and viruses to take over your system? That's how you get malware and viruses to take over your system. > Having a user defined maximum stack limit might be a good idea, eg if > my stack takes up 100MB its prolly broke, but it should be my duty as > a programmer to specify such a limit, not have it inflicted upon me > (worse, in a manner that cannot be changed!). You mean sys.getrecursionlimit() and sys.setrecursionlimit()? -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
