Re: [Webmacro-devel] Yep, #macro/parser BUG. **Proof**

[Marc P. <ma...@an...>]

On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 18:19:21 -0700, Brian Goetz <br...@qu...> wrote:

> Of course this causes a stack overflow.  You have written a recursive 
> macro with no base case.  It is equivalent to:
>
> public int screwMe(int n) {
> return screwMe(n-1);
> }

No, it's like:

public int screwMe(int n) {
    if (n > 0)
	    return screwMe(n-1);
    else
	    return 0;
}

> Do the same with your macro.  There must be some way #visitChildren can 
> expand to something that doesn't involve calling #visitChildren....

... not having any children?

Cheers

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