- From: Geoffrey Garen <ggaren@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:10:15 -0700
> To me it just seems wrong to prevent this. This is in theory no > different than a recursive call and just like recursion it can end up > in an infinite loop. You're right, it is no different *in theory*. It is, however, different in practice. If we allow click() to re-enter itself, popular websites stop working. > Having a limit seems OK since most JavaScript > engines already have a limit on the size of the call stack. The concern here isn't implementation complexity -- it's web compatibility. A standard that breaks the web is no standard at all. Geoff
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