Re: Crash when completion script call itself.

[Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 30 Sep 2017 00:03:53 +1300
Nicolas Desprès <nicolas.despres@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 11:45 PM, Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
> >
> > ...come to think of it, slightly more helpfully, you can at least see
> > how far it gets on your system...
> >
> > i=0; fn() { print $(( ++i )); fn; }; fn
> >
> 
> 767 and then crash. Maybe setting it to 500 would be enough? I think I
> remember that Python limit is 500 too.

I've no personal objection to reducing it to 500 by default (and I'll
probably add a variable anyway), but I'd like to know if anyone has
strong feelings --- given this is a bit of a kludge anyway and this is
based on a sample of one.

pws