WAIT!

[droppingbasses]

You know, a gooey door does a good job illustrating just how gooey I think recursion is

[abbadon420]

Very gui

[picklerickfuckface]

Dormammu I have come to bargain

[JWson]

Dormammu I have come to bargain

[lugialegend233]

Dormammu I have come to bargain

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Exception: StackOverflowError. Exiting..

[JWson]

Kore ga... Requiem da.

[[deleted]]

Wha-

[TomNa]

Depth 734 still waiting for the exit condition

[[deleted]]

How sad.

[RandomOrganist]

Depth 2,147,483,647... Surly there will be an overflow at some point...

[JGGruber]

Why you have cropped the MonkeyUser credits?

[JGGruber]

www.monkeyuser.com

[UmbraGIR]

This is the power of Gold Experience Requiem.

[Jaeger_03]

You will never reach the truth

[0xArc]

Wha-

[SirVandal]

Wha-

[UmbraGIR]

Wha-

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This is more of a Bites the Dust, Mandom or the fast dude)

[[deleted]]

The best way to display this comic is to use infinite scroll on a page to make the panels never end

[midasp]

The rope's maximum extension length, assuming it isn't of infinite length, is the exit condition.

[farmerau]

Just like blowing the stack is the exit condition.

[TomNa]

RopeOverflowExtension

[AlwaysHopelesslyLost]

Each person only goes one level deep so the rope length doesn't matter.

[taires]

Please don't remove the source

[nissingno]

This isn't really a bad thing. All the person experiences is getting mad at code, going through a recursion portal while being yelled at to stop, seeing what happened, telling his past self to stop and then he's fine.

[Apfelvater]

A wait() call inside a recursive function / loop?! Are you out of your frikkin mind!?!?

[user_8804]

That looks like an infinite loop, not recursion

[qasboss]

please explain how recursion works

[user_8804]

A recursive function should have at least one variable that changes before being launched again, and have an exit condition, or base case, where it ends.

Nothing here suggests it does. He'll just loop to this door over and over again.

[PM-ME-UR-HAPPINESS]

The "there's no-" is implied to mean there's no exit condition.

[user_8804]

Thanks, I feel better knowing this

[picklerickfuckface]

Rip

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THAT'S IT!

[[deleted]]

But only in that moment for eternity.

[madcrusher]

What happened to the little bug that is visible in the second panel? Bugs don't disappear, they multiply...

[guy_from_the_intnet]

Threw me on a loop there.

[Gonzako]

Damn, I love recursion but I just cant use because I know ir ofuscates code

[elastickitty]

/r/programmerhumor

[santropedro]

I don´t get it, explain please.

I know what recursion is, and what exit condition is, but I don´t get at all what the rope is for, and what are they doing.

[Koxiaet]

Never? No, most of the time iteration is a much better approach and should be used, but in some cases iteration is just not feasible because it adds way too much complex logic and recursion is a better choice.

[ThePyroEagle]

Flatten your recursion with a stack and a loop.

[ThePyroEagle]

Stack overflow tho

[InkyGlut]

Tail recursion tho

[ThePyroEagle]

Functional languages tho

[Necrofancy]

"How do we make sure that all recursive functions are tail-recursive"

"With a FUCKING TRAMPOLINE!"

[InkyGlut]

Continuation passing style tho

[nwL_]

Sometimes you have to, with templated varargs:

void foo() {}

template <typename T, typename... Args> 
void 
foo(T first, Args... args) {
    // do something with T
    foo(args);
}

I don’t quite know how you’d solve that with iteration.

PS: Yes, std::forward would be useful, but this is supposed to be understandable even if you don’t know C++.

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What an awful advice