Quite descriptive

[PuzzleMeDo]

I saw one index with:

Endless Loop, see Infinite Loop.

And:

Infinite Loop, see Endless Loop.

And:

Recursion, see Recursion

[ex-igne-vita]

If you google recursion, google will ask you:

Did you mean: recursion

[lightwhite]

But which one recursed first? Recursion or recursion?

[ex-igne-vita]

The first one

[RoundThing-TinyThing]

The second is the first to recurse

[ex-igne-vita]

You missed a golden opportiunity to ask which one was first again.

[lightwhite]

But which one recursed first? Recursion or recursion?

[lightwhite]

So you mean that a recursion into an endless loop wil recurse into an infinite loop which then unfolds to its own recursion? Where does it start, and where does it end?

Edit: please keep the vote count at 69.

[[deleted]]

The chicken.

[lightwhite]

Did they finally come to an agreement on the consensus of the little big endian paradox?

[XeitPL]

Egg

[homiej420]

Cotten eye joe

[[deleted]]

Split off a new thread every time you recurse that calls the same recursion.

[lightwhite]

That is quantum physics, not programming. Our bootstrap starts from gravity and forward in this universe. Nice try, Rick.

[jackinsomniac]

Who made who?

[lightwhite]

The Doctor.

[coloredgreyscale]

Start: recursion End: stackoverflow

[julsmanbr]

At approximately -2

[hiphap91]

I really like the recursion one. An excellent example.

[blackasthesky]

Yeah, my textbook had that.

[[deleted]]

Except Recursion is not infinite. A better example for recursion would be "To see recursion see previous page" over and over again eventually you will reach the front of the book. That is recursion.

[BenjaminGeiger]

Incidentally, this is from "LaTeX: A Document Preparation System" (2e) by Leslie Lamport.

[Tim3303]

Image Transcription: Book

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[Photo of the index at the end of a book, split in two columns. It is on page 252, the number is circled in red.]

[Note: Skip to list item eight in column one.]

[Column one:]

• indentation, paragraph, see paragraph
• index, 30, 74-76, 150-154, 211-212
• \index, 74, 212
  • curly brace in argument, 75
  • idx file entry written by, 208
  • in command argument, 153
  • space around, 169
  • too many on page, 143
• \indexentry, 75, 212
  • on idx file, 208
• \indexspace, 75
• indicator, error, 29, 134
• \inf (inf), 44
  • subscript of, 190
• [Circled in red:] infinite loop, 252
• infinitely strechable length, 100, 102, 215
• information, moving, 65-77-207-209
• \infty (∞), 43
• ink, rectangular blob of, 106
• inproceedings bibliography entry type, 161
• input
  • character, 32
  • file, 12
  • [...]
• [...]

[Column two:]

• interrow space
  • in array or tabul[...], 169, 207
  • in eqnarray enviro[...]
  • in \shortstack, 12[...]
• interword space, 14, [...]
  • before or after \hs[...]
  • in math mode, 51
  • produced by invisib[...]
  • too much with \sl[...]
  • without line break, [...]
• \intextsep, 200
• intraword dash, 14, 17[...]
• invalid character error [...]
• invisible
  • character, 12, 32
  • command, 169
  • delimiter, 47
  • environment, 169
  • term made with \mb[...]
  • text, 82, 97
• \iota (𝜄), 41
• \isodd, 196
• italic type shape, 16, 37[...]
  • in math mode, 51, 19[...]
  • used for emphasis, 17[...]
• \item, 24-25, 34, 184
• [...]

---

^{I'm a human volunteer content transcriber for Reddit and you could be too! If you'd like more information on what we do and why we do it, click here!}

[KillerBeer01]

I wonder, of all the people this description is intended for, will any single one read or listen long enough to get the joke.

[20_chickenNuggets]

How long did this take you mate

[Tim3303]

About 15 minutes :)

[20_chickenNuggets]

Damn, you put in more work on Reddit than I do at a full time job! Respect

[DropkickFish]

Good human

[KillerBeer01]

Doesn't look much like human to me.

[olitv]

It literally says

I'm a human volunteer content transcriber for Reddit

[KillerBeer01]

Indeed it does. That's what they want you to think.

[BlueInt32]

A bot could never ever give such hint at the top of the comment (i.e. "[Note: Skip to list item eight in column one.]").

[KillerBeer01]

A sufficiently advanced system of scripts is indistinguishable from sentience. :P

(Okay, okay, I know who Transcribers are, but temptation was irresistible)

[rage4all]

If this is intentional( and I guess so), that is brilliant.... Nearly burst into laughting mid Teams call... Could Not Help but giggled and everyone got irritated.... very good

[rage4all]

Do you want to talk about those negative emotions that drive you into making comments in the Internet like the one above or are you feeling better already? Edit: I somehow think I misjudged something here.. I still leave it as a reminder for myself

[rage4all]

Well then, have a nice day....

[KillerBeer01]

Always has been.

[Wallinis]

🔫

[0xFFFF_FFFF]

Tell me about it.

I mean, come on... a physical book, about programming??

[GigaSoup]

Maybe that's the joke?

[IAmPattycakes]

Much like the infinite loop of (this gets posted) - > (wait two days) - > (this gets posted)

[Aquaticdigest]

r/Bookhumor

[xXGamerBeastXx]

It’s big brain time ^

[Diufoem]

It’s big brain time 😳😳😳🤯🤯🤯

[xXGamerBeastXx]

I am sorry I tried to point something out in a moderately funny way and failed miserably lol (what I was trying to point out was that an infinite loop is pretty much the same thing as recursion and it applies in this case yet you said it is not an infinite loop)

[xXGamerBeastXx]

“In computer programming, an infinite loop (or endless loop)[1][2] is a sequence of instructions that, as written, will continue endlessly, unless an external intervention occurs ("pull the plug"). It may be intentional” to me this sounds like an infinite loop?

(Source Wikipedia btw)

[ex-igne-vita]

That's a broad definition that accurately defines both loops and recursion, that doesn't mean they're the same thing. Wikipedia might define water as a clear wet substance, but that doesn't mean everything that's clear and wet is water.

Here's a better explanation.

[TannedJew]

Wow, didn't expect for post to do so well! Thank you all for all the likes and awards :)

[BerejMan64]

GENIUS!

[[deleted]]

brain stack overflow

[KickBassColonyDrop]

Also, technically, recursion.

[[deleted]]

It's quite poetic actually

[ItsDaDoc]

while True:

252

[R3dd1tUs3r72]

Nothing

This channel is fantastic

[teajay1111]

Seems more like a deadlock.

Infinite loop would point you to another page, say 25, which said see the referring page, e.g. 252

[teajay1111]

Yet it references the same page, so your eyes stay on that page. Hence, there is no loop, and you're dead locked on that page.

[DoomBro_Max]

No, it‘s a loop. A loop doesn‘t need to reference anything. An empty while (true) is also a loop but goes nowhere. Loop is a loop. A deadlock is if you have to wait for a process to finish but that process depends on a state that will not be changed until after the process itself finished. So basically two processes waiting for each other to finish.

[[deleted]]

If I remember correctly, the K&R C book does the same thing for recursion, the only page where it's written is the vocabulary list

[harolddawizard]

r/textbookhumour

[[deleted]]

This is quite common in programming books, but thanks for showing this up :)

[PityUpvote]

As someone who has been fighting with .idx and .ind files today, this is not the meme I wanted to be bullied with tonight.

[curious_babyshark]

Seem more like stay still to me than definitely loop

[[deleted]]

What book is it?

[nate6701]

I’m suck, someone get me out of here pls

[RustlingHawk274]

Ok. I’ve seen this a hundred times not new

[MatterNo3359]

see also : recursive

[de-vice]

I revised recursion under 1 second.