On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 09:55:44AM -1000, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > > > What is the status of this bug? Should this be a PGE todo item? > > > > My opinion is that it's "not a bug" -- the normal behavior for > > most programs with infinite recursive loops is that they > > eventually explode. > > Sounds reasonable. I'm sure it would be nearly impossible to catch all > possible cases of infinite recursion when the grammar is compiled but > how difficult would it be to trap at runtime? A simple warning along > the lines of "Warning: production foo has recursed 10,000 times without > matching any terminal\n" would certainly be useful in figuring why it > blew up...
We can enter "trap recursions without terminals" as a possible PGE todo item, but unless someone knows an easy implementation or wants to take on the task of implementation it's not likely to be resolved anytime soon. :-) Pm
