diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7450063360..5ba5309eda 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ without arguments starts a full interactive Python console.
 - Make CmdGet/Drop/Give give proper error if `obj.move_to` returns `False`.
 - Make `Object/Room/Exit.create`'s `account` argument optional. If not given, will set perms
   to that of the object itself (along with normal Admin/Dev permission).
+- Make `INLINEFUNC_STACK_MAXSIZE` default visible in `settings_default.py`.
 
 
 ## Evennia 0.9 (2018-2019)
diff --git a/evennia/settings_default.py b/evennia/settings_default.py
index 62a00f090f..dc91c3990e 100644
--- a/evennia/settings_default.py
+++ b/evennia/settings_default.py
@@ -583,12 +583,15 @@ TIME_IGNORE_DOWNTIMES = False
 # session-aware text formatting and manipulation on the fly. If
 # disabled, such inline functions will not be parsed.
 INLINEFUNC_ENABLED = False
+# This defined how deeply nested inlinefuncs can be. Set to <=0 to
+# disable (not recommended, this is a safeguard against infinite loops).
+INLINEFUNC_STACK_MAXSIZE = 20
 # Only functions defined globally (and not starting with '_') in
 # these modules will be considered valid inlinefuncs. The list
 # is loaded from left-to-right, same-named functions will overload
 INLINEFUNC_MODULES = ["evennia.utils.inlinefuncs", "server.conf.inlinefuncs"]
-# Module holding handlers for OLCFuncs. These allow for embedding
-# functional code in prototypes
+# Module holding handlers for ProtFuncs. These allow for embedding
+# functional code in prototypes and has the same syntax as inlinefuncs.
 PROTOTYPEFUNC_MODULES = ["evennia.utils.prototypefuncs", "server.conf.prototypefuncs"]
 
 ######################################################################
diff --git a/evennia/utils/inlinefuncs.py b/evennia/utils/inlinefuncs.py
index 16fb9c3915..7d3e517c50 100644
--- a/evennia/utils/inlinefuncs.py
+++ b/evennia/utils/inlinefuncs.py
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ from django.conf import settings
 
 from evennia.utils import utils, logger
 
+# The stack size is a security measure. Set to <=0 to disable.
+_STACK_MAXSIZE = settings.INLINEFUNC_STACK_MAXSIZE
+
 
 # example/testing inline functions
 
@@ -276,12 +279,6 @@ for module in utils.make_iter(settings.INLINEFUNC_MODULES):
             raise
 
 
-# The stack size is a security measure. Set to <=0 to disable.
-try:
-    _STACK_MAXSIZE = settings.INLINEFUNC_STACK_MAXSIZE
-except AttributeError:
-    _STACK_MAXSIZE = 20
-
 # regex definitions
 
 _RE_STARTTOKEN = re.compile(r"(?<!\\)\$(\w+)\(")  # unescaped $funcname( (start of function call)