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Sunday 5 March 2006 15:23, by Stéphan K. :: site :: #

Not really any of the languages you asked for, but here's another fun example of C #include recursivity:
www.99-bottles-of-beer.ne...

I really wouldn't know how to pull of this kind of hackery in any of the other languages. Maybe you can do metaclass recursivity in Python?

Sunday 5 March 2006 15:27, by soran :: #

I have just lost all respect for callum

Sunday 5 March 2006 15:46, by cartman :: #

Python sucks :

cartman@southpark ~ $ python
Python 2.4.2 (#1, Jan 25 2006, 00:43:19)
[GCC 3.4.5] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> def lame():
... lame()
...
>>> lame()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "<stdin>", line 2, in lame
[ Lots of above ... ]
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded

Sunday 5 March 2006 16:05, by Bongo :: #

Yeah, because abusing simple include statements are in the same "what stupid idiot designed this" class as massively over-engineered turing complete templates that only about two people in the world can understand fully, and probably need entire books devoted to describing them fully.

Foolish indeed.

Sunday 5 March 2006 16:07, by Koss :: #

The KDE response is pity. This example is for C and C++.
Is the same error because two languages use extensively the #includes.

Sunday 5 March 2006 16:13, by MauricioC :: #

The KDE guy was kidding.

Sunday 5 March 2006 18:55, by John :: #

Think. Are you just inciting a flame war by posting this? Or was Callum?

Is any of this worth it?

Sunday 5 March 2006 19:57, by - :: #

Actually, a while(1) fork(); wouldn't be able to bring down the machine in any decently-configured linux machine, there're per-user limits for those kind of things

Sunday 5 March 2006 20:59, by Jess Sightler :: site :: #

Indeed... that is exactly what I was thinking while reading this. The while(1) fork(); thing doesn't really work that way these days...

Monday 6 March 2006 05:07, by fraggle :: site :: #

Yes it does! Nobody I know bothers setting process accounting limits.

Monday 6 March 2006 07:29, by bi :: site :: #

Why English sucks:

"This sentence is false."

Tuesday 7 March 2006 07:47, by elvstone :: #

Not to be a nitpick, but is 'recursivity' really a word? What's wrong with good'ol 'recursion'? :) And to 'bi': Isn't the liars paradox pretty much universal across languages? :)

Regards,
Aron

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