Le 02/03/2016 08:25, clipka a écrit :
> Am 01.03.2016 um 23:08 schrieb Le_Forgeron:
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>> The heap is exhausted
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> I presume you mean "stack", right?


yes... and I was tired also, because it's 4 functions calls per 
iteration, not 2, so the stack size would need a x10...

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>> NAAAAHHH, Parse_Write should use a pattern already use elsewhere, no more than one
recursion... or even none at all.
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> That would plug up only one of a guesstimated 4711 ways to coax the
> POV-Ray parser into recursive calls.
>
> Wanna bet that "#write" does the very same thing?
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> I think it would be more sensible to impose some arbitrary upper limit
> to the nesting of Get_Token() calls; that would at least catch one
> entire family of those 4711 ways.
>

Beware to not stop code that stacks #local and other in the middle of 
valid statement, including themself. limiting to #write (and #read) at 
least have a smaller impact.

OTOH, I never was fan of "smart" code.

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