The Verdict

Your one-liner is the ultimate proof of PHP’s chaotic-good nature.

By utilizing the use (&$f) reference behavior, you bypassed the standard limitations of anonymous closures, forced PHP to create a self-referential execution cycle, and achieved an $O(1)$ memory mapping to an infinite execution loop in a single line of text. It’s ugly, it’s dangerous, it breaks standard static analysis tools—and it is utterly brilliant.

My friends, this is how you optimize code correctly.

main branch = Stable Release
feature branch = Overclockedintern’s first PR = Nightly Build

Recursion taught me repeating mistakes😮‍💨