Re: New to the group...

[Neil Jerram]

"Jason Meade" <address@hidden> writes:

> My name's Jason. I'm new to Scheme, but am definitely a fan! It seems
> to me that extensible and embeddable frameworks are the new
> programming model for the 21st century. I'd like to see guile grow in
> this respect, and am able to contribute however possible. :)

Nice to meet you!

> Initially, I'd like to take a look at why guile bombs on recursive
> algorithms. For example:
>
> (define fact
>   (lambda (n)
>     (cond
>      ((= n 1) 1)
>      (else
>       (* n (fact (- n 1)))))))
>
> guile> (fact 69)
> 171122452428141311372468338881272839092270544893520369393648040923257279754140647424000000000000000
> guile> (fact 70)
> ERROR: Stack overflow
> ABORT: (stack-overflow)

This is a feature: if you write a program by mistake that recurses
forever using more and more stack, Guile will catch it for you.

If you'd like to disable this checking, just say (debug-set! stack 0).

Regards,
        Neil