OpenEuphoria

Re: goto: it's conceded

• Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at agri??lture.gouv.fr> Jun 03, 2008
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Kat wrote:
> 
> Derek Parnell wrote:
> > 
> > Kat wrote:
> > 
> > > What is the depth limit to nested for/while loops in Eu?
> > 
> > I think it is only limited by available memory. There is no hard-coded
> > limit.
> 
> When you say "available memory", would that be 1Kbytes local stack space per
> procedure, or 64k global stack space, or the 2 gigabytes the OS will let the
> program have? Or somewhere in between that's undefined?
> 
> Yes, real world, i hit TurboPascal's stack limit with nested loops.
> 
> Kat

The parser creates a few sequences to keep track of loops and blocks. The length
of such sequences is the number of currently active loops/blocks. If that number
becomes dangerously close to 1.0e8, memory may start being scarce on an oldish
machine.

CChris