Why do I get stack overflow?

[bearophile]

Ary Borenszweig:
> Thanks. Later in my head I instantiated the template and noticed the 
> problem.

In time I have created similar problems in my code 2-3 times, missing a "static" before some "if".
Can't the compiler help spot such bugs? If the variables a dynamic if works on are constants (expecially if they are types) the compiler may give a warning...

Bye,
bearophile