From: Martin Weber <Ephaeton@...>
Date: 2003-03-26T06:02:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Recursive methods allowed in Ruby?

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 05:50:47AM +0900, Krishna Dole wrote:
> When I
> try to run the following Ruby example, I get a "stack too deep" error. (Or
> did I just make a stupid mistake?)
> (.. snipsnap ...)
I assume you run into an endless loop on '.', the current directory.

list_dirs 'somedir'
 => x = '.'
   '.' is directory => list_dirs '.'
   => x = '.'
     '.' is directory => list_dirs '.'

     ... etc ...

-Martin