GNU bug report logs - #20075
24.3; json.el functions are recursive

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: sindikat <at> mail36.net (sindikat <at> mail36.net)

Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 21:36:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 24.3

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: "sindikat <at> mail36.net (sindikat"@mail36.net), 20075 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20075: 24.3; json.el functions are recursive
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 16:29:41 +0300

Hi!

On 03/10/2015 11:35 PM, sindikat <at> mail36.net (sindikat <at> mail36.net) wrote:
> Feature request: rewrite `json.el' so that it doesn't use recursive
> functions. Emacs doesn't support TCO, therefore invoking `json.el'
> functions on huge data structures results in stack overflow.
>
> For example, I created a ridiculously huge data structure using a
> function from `dash.el':  ...

Have you seen this to be an actual problem in practice?

Would you be interested in implementing this feature?
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