From: Neil Conway <nconway@...>
Date: 2001-06-10T00:34:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16362] Re: bug?

On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 06:33:36PM +0900, ts wrote:
> >>>>> "N" == Neil Conway <nconway@klamath.dyndns.org> writes:
> 
> N>     def method_missing(methId)
> N>         puts "Got this method call: #{methID}"
> N>     end
> 
>  methID is not defined and it's resolved as a method call. 
>  This mean that method_missing call method_missing which call
>  method_missing which call ... :-)

Okay, I see why that happens.

Still, there should be a way to detect that it's doing thousands of
recursive function calls, and stop it before it dumps core -- right? I
think that would be more graceful.

Cheers,

Neil