Update: this is bug report 15602. The response from the Livecode folks is that 7.0.x is using 16-bit numbers for the recursionlimit property, so Jacque hit the nail on the head. However, in 6.x.x they were using 32-bit numbers, so my setting a very high recursion limit actually did have an effect. They confirm that this is a bug. No promise on the timing of a fix, though.
> On Jul 14, 2015, at 2:57 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote: > > On 7/13/2015 9:23 PM, Bruce Pokras wrote: >> The first time I opened the stack in 7.0.6 that had been developed >> under 6.0.2 I received an error message related to the “openstack” >> command in the stack script. It said that the value to which I had >> set the recursionlimit property “is not a number.” The value I used >> was 20000000. Looks like a number to me! (I am on a Mac, so the >> Windows issue does not effect me). I tried various numbers until I >> finally narrowed it down. Attempting to set the recursionlimit >> property to any number greater than 65535 gives me an error that that >> value is not a number. Also, setting the recursionlimit to a low >> number like 40 does not work as expected. After setting the >> recursionlimit property to 40 I typed “put the recursionlimit” into >> the message box and hit “return.” The number that it returned was in >> the high 30-thousands! > > > I'm not sure about the 30,000 issue, but 65535 is the upper limit for a > 16-bit number. It may be that earlier versions of LC just didn't throw any > errors if you exceeded that. > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/65535_(number)> > "65535 occurs frequently in the field of computing because it is the highest > number which can be represented by an unsigned 16-bit binary number. Some > computer programming environments may have predefined constant values > representing 65535, with names like MAX_UNSIGNED_SHORT." > > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
