Press this to see how even the high-level scripting languages in the mainstream prevent programmers from using recursion.
Different Javascript engines will give you different error messages, but the Mozilla one is the most offensive: "too much recursion." Groan.
Update: I've modified the Javascript so it should work in Safari, too. But I'm not going to spend more time making a broken script work in multiple browsers.
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> Different Javascript engines will
> give you different error messages,
> but the Mozilla one is the most
> offensive: "too much recursion."
In my application, IE 6 had the worst behavior. It just crashed. Using Firefox I got the "Too much recursion" message, which then led me to this page, and then it took me a few seconds to figure out where I had an infinite recursion problem.
Interestingly enough, IE 6 does not crash with your example.
FWIW in Firefox 3.5.5 on a win2k box the limit appears to be 3000 calls.
Too bad finding documentation of that is nontrivial.
That said, expecting javascript to support an infinitely large stack is a bit silly -- if you know you are doing deep recursion you should be creating your own custom "stack".
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/jsp/article.php/3622321
is a useful guide.
That said, expecting javascript to support an infinitely large stack is a bit silly -- if you know you are doing deep recursion you should be creating your own custom "stack".
Absolutely not.
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