Things not to do #41.

[Mary Fisher]

Ah!

I'll remember that if I don't forget it.

Mary

[Andrew Gabriel]

Recursion: to curse and curse again...

[Rick]

What about the proof that death never occours, its said that at the end, your whole life flashes in front of you, including of cource the flash, so at the end of the 1st flash, you see the 2nd, which contains the 3rd etc etc .........

Rick

[Owain]

That's easy. Take a tip from tellyland and use lots and lots and lots of blu-tack.

Owain

[Rob Morley]

No, because you have to do something before you can do it - in a loop you'd just do it over and over.

[Grumpy owd man]

Or...in the days before they invented 'Tile edging strip '; set up your circular- saw bench with a stone cutting disc, mitre ALL of your external corner tiles so as to provide a neat edge. THEN realise you have mitred for an internal corner not an external one. AND ...since they were all cut to size they were no use for anywhere else....Whoops

[meow2222]

reckon thats what I'd have done. Whatever you were building needed mains power.

NT

[Pete C]

After accidentally vacuuming up a vital and unique screw, do not put it in your holed shorts pocket after carefully going through the dustbag in the garden.

Then having found the screw after ages spent on hands and knees in the dirt, remember to put a new bag in the vacuum ready for use next time.

Also when throwing out the old bag and not replacing it with a new one, remember to retain the bag holder for when it's needed a few weeks later....

cheers, Pete.

[taz]

When your strimmer starts to emit clouds of smoke and stop working, switch off the mains BEFORE cutting the wire off with a pair of scissors...

[DJC]

not necessarily. if tai recursive then it's equivalent to a loop.

[Ian White]

Not your best of all days, was it?

[Eric The Viking]

Recursion and looping are different.

Looping is where you just repeat the same thing over and over again.

Recursion is where the thing you are doing causes the thing you are doing to happen.

...however I am unable to determine whether this part of the discussion is recursive, or is just becoming repetitive;-)

ETV

[Mungo]

Hmmm... sounds like a circular dependency chain, hence a "loop".

Mungo

[Eric The Viking]

A loop is when you repeat the same sequence of things until the job is done, the tiling issue was more like a chicken and egg problem which is kind of recursive.

ETV

[The Natural Philosopher]

That sounds more like it.

Twas on the monday morning that the gas man came to call..

[Huge]

Do not dismantle your faulty cesspit pump on the ground next to the cesspit, then knock it over, causing several vital parts to fly into the cesspit.

[John Cartmell]

"a Monday". It repeats indefinitely. ;-)

[Mary Fisher]

Talking about chickens and egg mysteries:

One of my bantams went broody so last Thursday I got some fertile eggs to slip under her, I was advised that five would be a good number, they like odd numbers.

The next day I saw that she'd kicked one out and later that to the resulting four a fifth had been added - laid by our other bantams who normally lays in a different coop. I removed it.

This morning I found another fifth egg from the other bantam.

Since the first is sitting tight at all times except when I lift her to make her eat and drink (and the other is also out) I want to know how these extra eggs are getting under the broody. And when is the second bantie laying - and how is she getting her egg under the bossy broodie?

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

Someone had to say it!

[Roger Mills]

You'll have to set up a video camera, to find out.