• NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
    5·
    6 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·
      5 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·
        5 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·
          5 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.