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

Infinite loop.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] credo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Infinite loop, then.

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Also circular reference

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

Yo, where my base case at?

[–] kubica@fedia.io 6 points 1 year ago

That's quitter talk.

[–] call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 year ago

Tail recursion even. 😂

[–] HamsterRage@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 year ago

See "loop, infinite".

[–] FrChazzz@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, my favorite literary index joke

[–] flamingsjack@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

And that is how you get a stack overflow