Re: Circular dependencies - Deadlock

[Simon Albrecht]

On 21.06.2017 22:03, address@hidden wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2017, Michael Käppler wrote:
> > foo.ily:
> > \include "bar.ly"
> > bar.ly:
> > \include "foo.ily"
> > Am I right to consider this a bug?
> I don't think so - at least not a bug in Lilypond.  It's just doing what
> you told it to do, and most other language parsers that have an "include"
> facility will similarly be unable to give a useful result when fed
> infinitely recursive include files.  The usual advice to users is not to
> write such input.

And indeed, the different file name extensions make this example very 
unlikely to happen.
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. However, that may not be very relevant/necessary to 
have.  So, a feature request, but not invalid, I’d say.

Best, Simon