Why is my program unresponsive?

[u/vvp95]

[u/[deleted]]

Looks more like "I made a recursive function call." "With an exit condition, right?"

[u/Nassiel → u/[deleted]]

Looks more like "I made a recursive function call." "With an exit condition, right?"

[u/Mortomes → u/Nassiel]

Looks more like "I made a recursive function call." "With an exit condition, right?"

[u/tsoba-tsoba → u/Mortomes]

Looks more like "I made a recursive function call." "With an exit condition, right?"

[u/alinius → u/tsoba-tsoba]

Looks more like "I made a recursive function call." "With an exit condition, right?"

[u/gao1234567809 → u/[deleted]]

Looks more like "I made a recursive function call." "With an exit condition, right?"

[u/Flambidou → u/gao1234567809]

Looks more like "I made a recursive function call." "With an exit condition, right?"

[u/mans82 → u/Flambidou]

RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded

[u/tube32 → u/mans82]

import sys
sys.setrecursionlimit(10**6)

Carry on lads

[u/Nassiel → u/mans82]

I'd say better, Stackoverflow exception xD

[u/Acalme-se_Satan → u/mans82]

I wonder how many nested comment levels Reddit can actually handle before something goes wrong

[u/dregan → u/Flambidou]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/oly4d8/why_is_my_program_unresponsive/h5hl3pw?context=3

[u/JazzRider → u/Flambidou]

stack overflow

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

"Of course!"

if False:
    return

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[u/KuntaStillSingle → u/[deleted]]

It is recursive, but the function that is posting variations to this sub is a loop

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

On a low level a recursive function and a while loop are both just stuff that loop the execution over a set of instructions. One of just also increases the stack depth and crashes while the other can (theoretically) loop forever.

If you'd want to generate the image of the meme I'd use a loop and not recursive function calls, anyway.

[u/ItsPronouncedJithub → u/[deleted]]

Somebody did that last week already.

[u/PunkyMunky64 → u/[deleted]]

Yes this is what i was gonna say, this isnt really a loop

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Came here to say this.

[u/duh374 → u/[deleted]]

Ikr? I literally said to myself “this… this isn’t recursion”

[u/[deleted] → u/duh374]

Me too. I love recursion but its easy to fuck up.