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On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 15:25:50 +0100, Peter Gerstbach <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Quoting Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > In Saxon 8.2 a sequence of 500 sibling instructions will in fact compile to > > the same code as the XPath expression (a1, a2, a3, ... a500), which is > > actually handled as (a1, (a2, (a3, (a4, ...))) and therefore does indeed > > make excessive use of stack space. This will be fixed next time around, > > although it's very rare that it causes a problem since you rarely see > > sequences of more than 5 sibling instructions. > > Thanks for this explanation. Now I know how to avoid this stack > overflow, and as > you stated, this amount of siblings is in fact rare. In any language a subroutine or a method of this size is not recommended as a good programming practice. As a rule, the code of a method should fit on a single page. With larger methods there are almost surely unnoticed bugs due to difficulties in understanding and due to poor maintainability. Of course, some people do write very long methods -- I have seen a method, whose code occupied 29 printed pages. With such a beast the question "What does this method do?" becomes very difficult to answer. Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev.
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