The advantage of that last approach is that it has side effects and cannot therefore be optimized out by the compiler.
That’s only one advantage. In theory it does not necessarily terminate, so that’s another one.
In
theoryhypothesisTo get pedantic, you’d have to test that out a whole bunch before even coming close to theory level, lol!
We already have a theory for it— called computer science.
That’s not even enough to get you a job these days.
You now have to use:do { x = reinterpret_cast<int>(AI::Instance().ask("Do Something. Anything. Be efficient and productive. Use 10 tokens.")); } while (x != 10);This isn’t just a function, it’s a bold restatement of what it means to write code — a symphony of characters, questioning the very nature of the cutting edge language models that I want to beat with hammers.
And for those who might not have noticed
There is 10 words in the prompt.
You’re absolutely right! I used more than 10 words in my prompt. Cry about it.
You’re absolutely right! Who sets a variable these days without running it though a LLM?
Great question!
First, we’ll deep dive into “What is a variable?”, then together we’ll examine “Who sets a variable?”, “What is an LLM?” and finally, “Who would set a variable without using an LLM?”
You’ll be a coding pro in no time!
How does that sound?
(I felt gross writing this lmao)
function myFunction() { try { x = new Random().nextInt(); if (x != 10) { throw "not 10"; } else { return (10) } catch(err) { myFunction() } } } x = myFunction()Commit notes: Added error handling
Returning 10 instead of x when x finally ends up being 10 really ties it together.
I’m glad you noticed. That was my favorite part too.
SyntaxError: Unexpected token ‘catch’
Coding on mobile is hard
For a time on Reddit (some years ago when I still used it) there was a trend of finding the worst way of implementing
is_even(x: int) -> bool. My contribution to that was a function that ranAckerman(x,x)flipping a Boolean at every iteration, and check if it was true or false at the end.It works btw, I will find the proof later
I would love to see the implementaion.
The implementation is not very exciting, I capture a variable in python. It could have been done more cleanly.
The proof is this. But, I could have made mistakes, it was many years ago.
Note that in python you’ll never be able to run
is_even(5)the stack cannot handle itEdit: daaaamn, that variable is ugly as hell. I would never do things like that now.
It never occurred to me that you could assign fields to a function. I mean, it totally makes sense considering that functions are objects in Python. It just never occurred to me that this is a thing one can do. Crazy.
Please don’t do that, I was stupid when I wrote that. But still, in very dynamic languages like python or js everything is an object, including functions, so you can just do object stuff on them.
I wasn’t going to, and after I saw it it totally makes sense that it’s possible, it just never occurred to me.
I guess this could be used like static variables inside functions in c. So scope-limited global variables. Not a good design choice in most cases.
That’s , uh…
Yeah. Cooler than anything I could’ve achieved for purposefully bad is_even
My first idea of a purposefully bad is_even is this:
def is_even(i): return True if i == 0 else not is_even(abs(i)-1)But I’m sure I could come up with worse given enough time.
That’s also slower than most of the stuff you could come up with, it is so slow that there is no hyperoperation fast enough to describe it. There were other approaches that were almost worse though, like “the function is a switch-case that returns false by default. As complaint tickets are opened, more cases get added to the switch-case”
the function is a switch-case that returns false by default. As complaint tickets are opened, more cases get added to the switch-case”
Oh if that is acceptable, then my secondary idea of using an API call for this should work too. I thought that it would have to be guaranteed to be correct (as long as you don’t reach a stack overflow or something)
It would get you promoted at Twitter, where lines of code is the productivity metric.
If only I could measure the quality of my paper purely by word count…
I thought “a a a a a a” x100000 was thought-provoking and well tested.
Something like
int *a = new int(10) Int*b = null While *b !=10 { b = rand(); a=new int(10)} Return *bI haven’t coded recently enough in c/c++ to remember syntax but the concept might work eventually if you’re lucky and have enough memory… Might need a time variant seed on the rand()…
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Probably Microsoft: You’re hired! Go work on GitHub
I’d say Meta hiring someone to work on WhatsApp. Man, is that piece of software crap… Every update, a new UI bug/glitch appears
Is this typescript?
Could be Java.
Seems like normal js?
Js is Math.Random. and NextInt() is a java method.
Wants to be Pro but doesn’t even do it recursive…
function foo() { x = new Random(); case (x = 10): return (x); default: foo() }What unholy mix of languages is that? It is dominated by a blend of javascript and python, but with notes of something exotic. Maybe algol? or vhdl?, there is to little to tell.
Impressive, someone write up a spec and publish it to the esolang wiki.It’s an incoherent hodgepodge of C#/.NET, PowerShell, and JavaScript, each of which I’ve forgotten more about than I currently know
How about
x=x-x
x++
x++
x++
x++
x++
x++
x++
x++
x++
x++
Make sure you initialize x with
x=x/x-x/xfor better precisionWhat if it’s already 0?
Just add
// @TODO find out why this crashes our application sometimesto fix that issue
x = -i;
Do many languages let you do that? When it’s in front of a variable I would’ve expected it to be a subtraction operator only and you would need to do x = -1 * i;
I just tested it in PowerShell. Works fine
$i = 1 $x = -$i $xOutputs -1
Works fine in any language I ever used.
I’m honestly quite surprised that this very basic language feature is even a matter of discussion here.
It certainly makes me question a lot of things. This sub somehow manages to both feed my impostor syndrome and makong me feel like a genius programmer depending on the thread.
Totally, yes. I guess there’s a ton of non-programmers and total beginners in this community.
But sometimes there are some crazy good programmers here as well.
What’s really weird though is that I got two downvotes a bit further up for claiming that unary minus is a standard language feature.
Yeah I saw that. It’s weird because I’ve used it without a second thought in tons of different languages and never had issues with it
