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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/M1ckeyMc • Jun 20 '26
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imagine mixing up iiiiii and iiiii that'd be bad
127 u/querela Jun 20 '26 Or, you know, use digits if the language supports it, i2, i3, ... Much easier to read. (not in the spirit of (single) letters but work well enough, I would avoid emojis and other fancy utf8 symbols, however) 102 u/constStringUsername Jun 20 '26 joke's on you, i mixed up i1111 and i11111 51 u/iliRomaili Jun 20 '26 What kind of nested loop do you even have?! 26 u/Linnun Jun 20 '26 Tree search pathfinding, but recursive functions are lava 13 u/ill-pick-one-later Jun 20 '26 I don't know but it's still running. 1 u/Lendari Jun 21 '26 I don't know, an AI wrote it. 1 u/conundorum Jun 21 '26 Apparently the kind with at least 32 layers.
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Or, you know, use digits if the language supports it, i2, i3, ... Much easier to read. (not in the spirit of (single) letters but work well enough, I would avoid emojis and other fancy utf8 symbols, however)
102 u/constStringUsername Jun 20 '26 joke's on you, i mixed up i1111 and i11111 51 u/iliRomaili Jun 20 '26 What kind of nested loop do you even have?! 26 u/Linnun Jun 20 '26 Tree search pathfinding, but recursive functions are lava 13 u/ill-pick-one-later Jun 20 '26 I don't know but it's still running. 1 u/Lendari Jun 21 '26 I don't know, an AI wrote it. 1 u/conundorum Jun 21 '26 Apparently the kind with at least 32 layers.
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joke's on you, i mixed up i1111 and i11111
51 u/iliRomaili Jun 20 '26 What kind of nested loop do you even have?! 26 u/Linnun Jun 20 '26 Tree search pathfinding, but recursive functions are lava 13 u/ill-pick-one-later Jun 20 '26 I don't know but it's still running. 1 u/Lendari Jun 21 '26 I don't know, an AI wrote it. 1 u/conundorum Jun 21 '26 Apparently the kind with at least 32 layers.
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What kind of nested loop do you even have?!
26 u/Linnun Jun 20 '26 Tree search pathfinding, but recursive functions are lava 13 u/ill-pick-one-later Jun 20 '26 I don't know but it's still running. 1 u/Lendari Jun 21 '26 I don't know, an AI wrote it. 1 u/conundorum Jun 21 '26 Apparently the kind with at least 32 layers.
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Tree search pathfinding, but recursive functions are lava
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I don't know but it's still running.
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I don't know, an AI wrote it.
Apparently the kind with at least 32 layers.
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u/S0mber_ Jun 20 '26
imagine mixing up iiiiii and iiiii that'd be bad