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[-] somnuz@lemm.ee 44 points 2 days ago

I saw this funny thing about that!

[-] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 days ago

This worked better in Apollo :/

[-] somnuz@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

Christian really achieved something amazing, you are just mentioning a name.. of an app.. and I still, sort of, get nostalgic about it.

Well.. respect goes a long way.

[-] datavoid@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Exactly my feelings regarding rif

[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago

Also circular reference

[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 21 points 2 days ago
[-] SnotFlickerman 6 points 2 days ago

Infinite loop.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 2 days ago
[-] SnotFlickerman 5 points 2 days ago

Well played!

[-] Jerkface@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Yo, where my base case at?

[-] kubica@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago

That's quitter talk.

[-] credo@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago
[-] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day ago

It's actually not, because the exit condition is "when you get the joke"

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Infinite loop, then.

[-] SnotFlickerman 4 points 2 days ago
[-] call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I seem to recall coming across a glossary that had something to the effect of,

mutual recursion - see recursion, mutual

recursion, mutual - see mutual recursion

[-] codemonk@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago

Tail recursion even. ๐Ÿ˜‚

[-] flamingsjack@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

And that is how you get a stack overflow

[-] FrChazzz@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Ah yes, my favorite literary index joke

this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2025
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