From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2006-06-13T10:22:15+09:00
Subject: Re: [Fun] self nesting array [[...]]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Meinrad Recheis wrote:

> I had the crazy idea to infinitely nest an array. At first I did
> expect to get an overflow of some sort or a strang error message when
> trying to inspect it but none of it happened:
>>> a=[]; a[0]=a

Since you have a taste for such things....

Let Jim Weirich make your head ache...
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