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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 12:52:33 -0700
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On 07/16/2015 12:14 PM, Joonas Liik wrote:

> You are giving the programmer a choice between "run out of stack and
> crash" and "mutilate interpreter internals and crash or zero out the
> hard drive" this is not a real choice..

+1

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~Ethan~