[antlr-interest] Embedding templates in itself

[Terence Parr]

ST handles nested templates very well and can do recursive, unlike  
many other tools. I'm not sure why that error is occurring, but like  
it or not somehow you are embedding a block template in itself. what  
does block template look like?
Ter
On Jul 7, 2008, at 12:59 AM, Oliver B. Fischer wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a tree parser to parse nested blocks like "{{}{}}". The  
> generated tree looks fine: (PROGRAM (FUNC void function (BLOCK  
> (BLOCK BLOCK)))).
>
> Unfortunately it seems to be impossible to embed templates in itself  
> as I try it:
>
> block
>  : ^(BLOCK (blo+=block)*)
>    -> block(st={$blo})
>  ;
>
> Doing this, I always get IllegalArgumentException saying "cannot  
> embed template block in itself". But who can I handle such structure  
> with StringTemplate?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Oliver
>
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