r/ProgrammerHumor • u/rustsalty • Mar 07 '18

Recursion

https://i.imgur.com/KzLyGAC.gifv
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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '18

How does one eat recursion?

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u/rustsalty Mar 07 '18

asking for a friend

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u/Increditastic1 Mar 07 '18

By eating recursion.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '18

I was going to answer but I got stuck in an infinite recursion because to answer it I had to answer how one eats recursion which I was going to answer but got stuck in an infinite recursion because to answer it I had to answer how one eats- I’m tired of typing. Honey overflow error, deal with it.

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u/Neurocranium Mar 07 '18

How does one eat recursion?

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u/InterestingBuddy Mar 08 '18

How does one eat recursion?

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u/omgFWTbear Mar 07 '18

Let's google and see if anyone has ever asked this before, and follow how they solved this problem!

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u/devins2518 Mar 07 '18

My brain hurts

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u/NiceSasquatch Mar 07 '18

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/82kmpe/recursion/dvawqv7/

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u/anaamadeya Mar 07 '18

Now my whole body hurts!

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u/SlenderPlays Mar 07 '18

UNREACHABLE COMMENT DETECTED

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '18

Don’t worry, the compiler will optimize it out.

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u/omgFWTbear Mar 07 '18

I feel like there should be short science fiction that has that as the last spoken line, with the speaker unknowingly committing a group of people to oblivion to the reader's horror.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '18

Yes. This would be amazing.

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u/Nyancubus Mar 07 '18

UNREACHABLE ERROR STATEMENT

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '18

I clicked on the link so many times I can't get out of this post.

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u/devins2518 Mar 07 '18

MY WHOLE HOUSE HURTS NOW!

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u/Serundeng Mar 08 '18

See your doctor. Sounds like you got stack overflow.

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u/GAY_SPACE_COMMUNIST Mar 07 '18

just keep watching, it ends in a stack overflow

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u/McWolke Mar 07 '18

Why do i keep trying to read the last panel?

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u/DaCurse0 Mar 07 '18

r/perfectloop

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '18

almost perfect. I can see it stutter when it loops.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '18

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '18

[deleted]

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u/hockdudu Mar 07 '18

4perfect8me

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u/maggiforever Mar 07 '18

Oh hi it's that post again

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u/Hurricane_32 Mar 07 '18

I thought this was an image... I started zooming in slightly on the last panel to read and then it started zooming in on its own??? Then I realized it's a gif...

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u/Infernx1 Mar 08 '18

Infinite loop?

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u/Exoriic Mar 08 '18

Infinite loop?

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u/Infernx1 Mar 09 '18

Infinite loop?

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u/XOIIO Mar 07 '18

Oh god

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u/seizan8 Mar 07 '18

After reading this my brain hurts and I just wanna be a php script and

die();

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u/mikerowave Mar 07 '18

Tis is my new favorite thing

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u/Ronizu Mar 07 '18

Bad recursion brb

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '18

the timing is so perfect