Gosub error

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 10:55:31AM -0400, Don Coleman wrote:
> I have a *clerk posting process which contains 11 gosub commands.  These are
> all individual "then statements", none of them nested.  However, one "then
> statement" does contain two consecutive gosubs (gosub one;gosub two).  Up
> until this week I would see an occasional program termination stating "too
> many nested gosubs".  This would mostly occur overnight, after their system
> maintenance has completed and users are again active on the system.  I would
> almost never see the "too many nested gosubs error" during the day.    
> 
> This week I have seen a substantial increase in the number of gosub errors
> occurring during the day.  Since I don't believe any of the gosubs are
> nested I'm unsure as why I am receiving the "too many nested gosubs" error.

grep for SCREEN commands; running one from inside a gosub is the
canonical reason for this error.  SCREEN does not pop the gosub stack.
I think I'm remembering that correctly.  Does it have to be combined
with the GOSUB being in field-code to break this?

Cheers,
-- jra
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