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Re: Circular dependencies - Deadlock


From: mskala
Subject: Re: Circular dependencies - Deadlock
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 15:57:59 -0500 (CDT)
User-agent: Alpine 2.20 (LNX 67 2015-01-07)

On Wed, 21 Jun 2017, Simon Albrecht wrote:
> It would be even better, I think, if Lily noticed the circular dependency and
> aborted with an informative message instead of just running on forever.

This may be a problem if there's any possibility of an include being
conditional.  Then, someone could write a non-infinite recursive include
deliberately, and be disappointed when Lilypond breaks it.

-- 
Matthew Skala
address@hidden                 People before principles.
http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/



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