Post #2114054
2026-05-06 18:41 UTC
@nyx Oh yeah that's a good analogy! You're totally right, it's way more subtler than this, and the for-loop can never be a complete translation.
I just don't think the detail of the infinity or stopping conditions is where the analogy visibly breaks down because you can always mimic those details in the translation and it *looks* like it still works. The breakage is more fundamental than that (declarative vs evaluated etc), and I was just amused by what got picked up as the gotcha.
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@shana@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-05-06 18:44
@nyx I was expecting someone to point out that you can just omit a starting point in the sigma notation, because it doesn't necessarily need one because it's not really a linear evaluation mechanism, which would completely shatter the silly programming analogy and bring the whole house of cards down! 😝😅 Alas.