Dear Statalisters,
today I have been working on a little program that contains a recusive
call to itself. While doing so I was wondering whether there is any
practical limit. So I tried the following in a do-file
global callno=0
capture program drop recursive_test
program define recursive_test
global callno=1+$callno
di "Call no = $callno"
recursive_test
end
recursive_test
and here is the ouput (slightly abbridged)
. global callno=0
. capture program drop recursive_test
. program define recursive_test
1. global callno=1+$callno
2. di "Call no = $callno"
3. recursive_test
4. end
. recursive_test
Call no = 1
Call no = 2
Call no = 3
...
...
...
Call no = 60
Call no = 61
Call no = 62
Call no = 63
system limit exceeded - see manual
r(1000);
end of do-file
r(1000);
No more than 63 recursive calls...So, I checked the manual without
really knowing for what limit I should be looking for. Maybe someone
has an idea.
regards
Sebastian
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