Awake. Did not appreciate the nightmares. Blergh.

@vaporeon_ *gives you ​and Vaporeon treats*

@aescling

@aescling By the way, aren't you a programmer? Please review my little C program: https://glaceon.social/@vaporeon_/116618292096617956

@vaporeon_ i don’t have any experience writing quines so i don’t really have much to say besides “nice, that’s sick”

@vaporeon_ the fact that printf template strings allow quines to happen is more or less the same idea as this hack to do general recursion without explicit recursion

#include <stdio.h>

int fac(void *f, int n) {
    int (*g)(void *, int) = f;

    if (n == 0) {
        return 1;
    }
    return n * g(f, n - 1);
}

int main(void) {
    printf("6! == %d\n", fac(&fac, 6));
}

a technique that is generalizable, btw. (not that you would ever need to use the Y combinator in any purractical situation)

@vaporeon_ potentially fun question: why did i have to use a void pointer fur the type of the furst argument to fac?