> Could we allow deeper recursion if we did it by hand? Sure.
> Are there any real advantages in 15 levels of recursion
> over 5 levels of recursion? I don't see any.
There is a real advantage in a max depth that is an arbitrary
parameter that anybody can pick suitably, above a max 5 that
one cannot increase without danger of kernel stack overflow.
Andries
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