From: Rich <rich@...>
Date: 2003-12-21T14:09:37+09:00
Subject: Re: How do you set the stack level on Windows?

Thanks for the quick response!!

I actually walked away for a few hours and get the solution... use the
existing each_line method. :-)

Now I've got an FXTreeList that displays basic XML nesting! All within the
first 2 days of seeing FOX... I'm very impressed.

-Rich


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lyle Johnson" <lyle@knology.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: How do you set the stack level on Windows?


> Rich wrote:
>
> > I'm wanting to not get the error - 'SystemStackError' ...
>
> Is there any way to make populateDisplay() non-recursive? It looks like
> you're exceeding the Ruby interpreter's stack size limit, which is not
> too hard to do. For example, consider this watered-down version:
>
>      def populateDisplay(depth)
>        puts "depth = #{depth}"
>        populateDisplay(depth + 1)
>      end
>
>      populateDisplay(0)
>
> Now if I run this, I get:
>
>      depth = 0
>      depth = 1
>      depth = 2
>      depth = 3
>      depth = 4
>         ...
>      depth = 1251
>      depth = 1252
>      depth = 1253
>      populateDisplay.rb:2:in `populateDisplay': stack level too deep
> (SystemStackError)
>
> Now, if you don't think the data in your XML file is nested that deeply,
> and thus your program should not be recursing that deeply, it may
> indicate some other error in populateDisplay().
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Lyle
>
>