Forum:What happens if two pages transclude each other?

Hi,

I have a bit of a quandry: what happens if two pages tranclude each other. Say for example, if page a transcludes all of page b on to it, and then page b transcludes all of page a, what would happen?

Thanks - it has just been niggling at me for a while :P

miker 5825  09:26, August 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * in theory you would get a infinity long page bit like tunnel effect of putting a video feed of a TV on the TV, so you seen the TV in the TV in the TV >>>>>>>> etc. In practice the wiki code should detect it and give an error like when a template calls its self. (not tried it out).


 * You get the Continuos loop with categories if one is in a second one and that one is in the first. on the category page tree clicking on the [+] sub cat which then shows the main category with the sub category below repeatedly when you expand the tree. (if that makes sense) - 1 - 2 - 1 - 2 - 1 - 2 - 1 - 2 ........ 1 - 2 -


 * -BulldozerD11 09:57, August 6, 2010 (UTC)

I tried that once, but didn't work sadly. -- Light Daxter -  Talk  10:13, August 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * Droste effect ;) --BramTalk/IGW 14:47, August 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * There is a parser error that activates on recursion, preventing such incidents from happening. --Yoshord 17:37, August 6, 2010 (UTC)
 * Remember don't divide by zero... —Manyman (talk) 21:38, August 6, 2010 (UTC)

Haha - thanks for the answer everyone! I wanted to test it out, but didn't want to stuff anything up :P Happy Editing! miker 5825  12:10, August 7, 2010 (UTC)