Here's a program with 1000 *s. You can see the pattern, make it any number you like.
https://go.dev/play/p/FZXWcQTutEG // You can edit this code! // Click here and start typing. package main import "fmt" type self *self func main() { var p self p = &p fmt.Println(****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************p) } -rob On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 4:29 PM Kurtis Rader <kra...@skepticism.us> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 9:12 PM shan...@gmail.com <shane....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Um >> >> Really? >> >> Which of these things are you specifically trying to prevent happening >> - Curiousity >> - Creativity >> - Asking questions >> - Some combination of the above >> >> I mean, I appreciate that you think that people should *know* whatever it is >> you think you know, but that's a really *really* poor response > > > Yes, your question was silly. The limit is going to be both platform > dependent and dependent on the resources (e.g., memory) available on the > platform. Your question is silly because regardless of the fundamental limits > imposed by the Go language or the platform it runs on absolutely no one will > ever write a function that gets within many orders of magnitude of the limit. > So your question is interesting in a hypothetical sense but not in a > practical sense. For the former I suggest you start a research project and > write a paper for review that explains why, or why not, the existing limit is > a problem. > >> >> On Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 4:08:02 PM UTC+11 Kurtis Rader wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 8:38 PM Jan Mercl <0xj...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> A linked list, for example, consists of pointers to pointers to pointers... >>>> >>>> Why should any limit exist to the length of the list except resources >>>> available? >>> >>> >>> Yes, but the O.P. was asking about a silly example. Specifically, when >>> defining a function that receives pointers how many levels of indirection >>> are allowed in the declaration. In practice 99.9% of the time a single >>> level of indirection is specified and 0.09% of the time two levels are >>> specified. Etcetera. For example, if >>> >>> func wtf(i ********int) { >>> } >>> >>> is supported, which has eight levels of indirection, why isn't 16? 32? 64? >>> Etcetera levels of indirection supported when defining a function. It's a >>> silly question that shows the O.P. doesn't understand how compilers work. >>> Let alone how people use languages like Go in real life. >>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2022, 03:59 shan...@gmail.com <shan...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> This morning someone asked about dereferincing a pointer to a pointer to >>>>> a pointer >>>>> >>>>> At first nobody had ever thought about, let alone knew the answer, but >>>>> some example code was shown, and sure enough ***val is possible >>>>> ``` >>>>> package main >>>>> >>>>> import "fmt" >>>>> >>>>> func main() { >>>>> a := 0 >>>>> b := &a >>>>> c := &b >>>>> UltimatePointOne(&c) >>>>> fmt.Println(a) >>>>> } >>>>> >>>>> func UltimatePointOne(n ***int) { >>>>> ***n = 1 >>>>> } >>>>> ``` >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On a lark a go playground example was tried to find what the maximum * is >>>>> in Go >>>>> >>>>> https://go.dev/play/p/YhibY3p7TSD >>>>> >>>>> There's 28 there, but it's not the limit >>>>> >>>>> Does anyone know what the upper bound on this could be? >>>>> >>>>> 256 * ? >>>>> >>>>> 32k * ? >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "golang-nuts" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>>> email to golang-nuts...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/60cf1568-31d3-426e-bfdc-0b4b98b53acdn%40googlegroups.com. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "golang-nuts" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to golang-nuts...@googlegroups.com. >>>> >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAA40n-WZwmcC6aVyvO3H42c9WeuL%2BPEimApdOPgR20cS_nPU%2Bw%40mail.gmail.com. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Kurtis Rader >>> Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/974ff13d-59ff-41f5-90a2-9a3ccd08f10dn%40googlegroups.com. > > > > -- > Kurtis Rader > Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CABx2%3DD_JhPrwy88teX68DzceaKBK5YuFhn%2Bt%2BKLnW9M-4JYrJw%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. 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