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Bug 365076

Summary:	[xtend] disallow recursion in create-expression in create methods
Product:	[Modeling] TMF	Reporter:	Moritz Eysholdt <moritz.eysholdt>
Component:	Xtext	Assignee:	Project Inbox <tmf.xtext-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	sven.efftinge
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Macintosh
OS:	Mac OS X
Whiteboard:

Description Moritz Eysholdt

2011-11-29 10:40:04 EST

example:

---
class bar  {
	new (bar x) {}
	def create new bar(newBar()) newBar() {} 
}
---

This kind of recursion circumvents the cache of a create method and should therefore be disallowed.

Comment 1 Sven Efftinge

2011-11-29 17:04:56 EST

I don't think we need to do anything here. It's not different to recursion in regular methods.

Comment 2 Karsten Thoms

2017-09-19 17:45:04 EDT

Closing all bugs that were set to RESOLVED before Neon.0

Comment 3 Karsten Thoms

2017-09-19 17:56:16 EDT

Closing all bugs that were set to RESOLVED before Neon.0