[antlr-interest] StringTemplate: Infinite Recursion in anonymous conditional template.

[Terence Parr]

On Apr 21, 2006, at 3:18 PM, Swapnil Kashikar wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am parsing PL/SQL code using antlr and transforming it using   
> StringTemplate 2.3b6 .
> Could someone please help me with fixing the error below (Obtained  
> with the setLintMode output from stringtemplate):
> ------------
> exception: java.lang.IllegalStateException: infinite recursion to  
> <anonymous([s])@9> referenced in <plsql_block([type_declaration,  
> functions, procedures, code, exception_handlers, into_clause, pb]) 
> @104>; stack trace:
> <anonymous([s])@9>, references=[s, s, LPAREN]>
> <plsql_block([type_declaration, functions, procedures, code,  
> exception_handlers, into_clause, pb])@104>, attributes= 
> [code=<statement()@105>, pb], references=[LPAREN, type_declaration,  
> functions, procedures, code]>
> <else_subtemplate([])@138>, references=[s, LPAREN]>
> <anonymous([s])@9> (start of recursive cycle)
> ...
> ------------

This means that somehow an inner block contains itself.  Mostly  
likely a cycle in your data structure injected into the tempaltes.   
Can u print them not using ST correctly (using a recursive routine)?

Ter