[ruby-core:35358] Re: eval'ing large strings runs out of stack space?

On Feb 23, 2011, at 17:02 , Martin J. Dst wrote:

> Hello Roger,
> 
> On 2011/02/24 5:28, Roger Pack wrote:
>> Hello all.
>> This code:
>> 
>> eval (['000000000']*500000).inspect
> 
> This doesn't result in a large string, but in a large array.

I think he's referring to the inspect.

This works fine in 1.8:

10003 % ruby19 -v -e 'eval (["000000000"]*500000).inspect'
ruby 1.9.2p136 (2010-12-25 revision 30365) [x86_64-darwin10.5.0]
(eval):0: stack level too deep (SystemStackError)
10004 % ruby -v -e 'eval (["000000000"]*500000).inspect'
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [universal-darwin10.0]
10005 %