How do you create a loop without actually spawning a loop? Somebody in AP Java Programming managed to pull it off. (Bear with me -- this happened awhile ago and I can't remember the full code, though this was the specific line of code.)
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public class FrankLoop() {
FrootLoop * new FrankLoop();
}
For those that don't understand the code, this will just keep spawning more FrankLoop()s.
Simple, no? Frank called in Eric, the Java-programming wiz-kid, to figure out why his program kept stalling. Eric looked over the code a few times, and eventually found the randomly-inserted FrankLoop() class. His reaction was even funnier than the existence of the code:
Eric wrote:YOU'VE CREATED AN INFINITE LOOP! IT WILL JUST KEEP GOING AND GOING AND GOING UNTIL IT RUNS OUT OF MEMORY!... let's try running it on someone's Web server!
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