• NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
      5·
      16 days ago

      I really can’t figure out what Zach intended for this to mean. Year is defined but never used: you’d expect something like books(year) instead of just books(). I have absolutely no idea what the function calls are supposed to represent.

      • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        14 days ago

        I think that “books”, “gardening” and “family” were meant to be functions, each of which was called each year over the 88 year lifespan.

        • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
          1·
          14 days ago

          It effectively runs:

          books(); gardening(); family()
books(); gardening(); family()
books(); gardening(); family()
books(); gardening(); family()
books(); gardening(); family()
books(); gardening(); family()
...

          it runs those 3 functions 88 times, there’s no hint as to what they do.

          • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            14 days ago

            We aren’t given the full eulogy in the comic, only the first lines of the main function. I imagine that it would continue with defining the functions.

    • m_‮f@discuss.onlineOP
      2·
      16 days ago

      Apart from the indentation issue (and semantics identified in sibling comment), the joke works in python:

      >>> for i in range(3):
...     print(i, end=' '); print(i**2, end=' '); print(i**3)
...
0 0 0
1 1 1
2 4 8