When you tell students to use functions...

Try a shorter version:

def all_lines(input):
return all_lines(input)

@ruhe That would be too obvious, they needed the assignment to trick me into believing that the function does something 😀

@ruhe Isn't that endless recursion? Lol.

@BigBoo but .. but it returns all_lines

@ruhe And does that forever. Practical.

@PrivateGER that's a very philosophical question.
Does it return all_lines countless times or does it return not at all?

@ruhe It's not philosophical. The function has to be evaluated before returning. So it will just deepdive and go bye bye.

@ruhe it'll return something eventually, but that'll be a stack overflow

not used to python but isnt that just a setter that also returns the resulting state? could be useful... if the assignment of all_lines is somehow changing the data... the function/variable names are confusing as hell though.