From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2008-04-11T10:10:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Stack Level Too Deep?

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:21:32 -0500, Julian Leviston wrote:
> On 11/04/2008, at 10:10 AM, Ken Bloom wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:00:15 -0500, Ryan Lewis wrote:
>>> I have a User class that handles users as structs and adds them to a
>>> hash within the class. Anyways, I was making a Remove functions for
>>> it.
>>> Here's my code:
>>>
>>> [code]
>>>  class User < Struct.new(:username, :password)
>>
>>>    def remove()
>>>      self.remove() ### => Stack Level Too Deep.
>>>    end
>>>  end
>>
>> The remove() method just keeps calling itself. I think you wanted
>>    def remove()
>>      self.class.remove(self.username)
>>    end
>
> Or maybe super()?

You'll get a NoMethodError if you call super(), because you're not 
overriding an existing remove method

--Ken

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Ken (Chanoch) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/