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[–] somnuz@lemm.ee 46 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I saw this funny thing about that!

[–] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This worked better in Apollo :/

[–] somnuz@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 2 days ago

Exactly my feelings regarding rif

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Infinite loop.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago

Also circular reference

[–] Jerkface@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yo, where my base case at?

[–] kubica@fedia.io 6 points 2 days ago

That's quitter talk.

[–] credo@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Infinite loop, then.

[–] call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 2 days ago

Tail recursion even. 😂

[–] HamsterRage@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 2 days ago

See "loop, infinite".

[–] flamingsjack@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

And that is how you get a stack overflow

[–] FrChazzz@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

Ah yes, my favorite literary index joke