Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by WhyNotHugo 209 days ago
The conditional here only makes it stop when it reaches 100. The solution can be adapted to use a while loop if you’re okay with it running indefinitely.
1 comments

A loop either never halts or has a conditional. I guess a compiler could elide a “while True:” to a branch-less jump instruction.

One hack would be to use recursion and let stack exhaustion stop you.

Count down i from 100 to 0 and do 1/i at the end of the loop :)
Other would be to use goto (though Python doesn't have it) & introduce something that will panic/throw exception, like creating variable with value 1/(max-i).
Recursion would work for that, you don't need goto.

The division by zero trick is pretty good too!

You could allocate 100 bytes and get a segfault on 101