Re: Should / Can an EventHandler throw a stack overflow exception? from Anne van Kesteren on 2014-06-30 (public-webapps@w3.org from April to June 2014)

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 22:59:41 +0200
To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
Cc: WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>, public-script-coord <public-script-coord@w3.org>, Allen Wirfs-Brock <allen@wirfs-brock.com>, es-discuss <es-discuss@mozilla.org>
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On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
> On 6/30/14, 4:40 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> Are stack overflow exceptions even a thing per standards?
>
> No.
>
> However, they come up pretty regularly in practice.  In fact, some sites
> depend on them for proper functioning.  :(

Paging Allen. If defining this needs to start anywhere, it would
probably be ECMAScript.


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