🚀 go-pugleaf

>Just to put my cards on the table.  X3J16/SC22 (C++ standards
>committee) is sharply divided on whether to have a section on
>limits.  Some of us, including myself, argue that without such
>a section any limit is a bug. With such a section arbitrary limits
>are somehow condoned as suggested by Norman's comment, and we
>don't want to condone any limits.

How can you possibly avoid some kind of limit?  Even an implementation
that uses arbitrary-precision arithmetic for something such as
#if nesting level is going to have SOME limit, like 
2^(MAXLONG*sizeof(unsigned long)*CHAR_BIT) (where ^ is an exponentiation
operator), even if it's outrageously large.  

Is 32767 an unreasonable limit on the nesting level?  Well, it wouldn't
cost that much to put the counts in a 32-bit long.  Do I need to go to 
(about) 2^(2^37)?  (about 137 billion bits in the number)  Or is that 
too small?

					Gordon L. Burditt
					sneaky.lonestar.org!gordon