https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=212.214.117.162 2026-07-10T20:22:53Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.30.0 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1188:_Bonding&diff=30581 2013-03-20T06:22:39Z

<p>212.214.117.162: add interpretation comments.</p> <hr /> <div>The aim method results in an infinite loop/stack overflow, note that ball is an exception of type Ball. This results in a logical flow of aim, &quot;throw,&quot; &quot;catch,&quot; repeat, though this is only logical by word choice, and is nonsensical from a programming perspective.<br /> <br /> Pretty sure the code is also intentionally hard to follow.<br /> <br /> <br /> The try/catch parts are just for show, they cancel each other out.<br /> The structure is that you have a parent and a child instance (of class P), each has a 'target' pointed to the other.<br /> Then calling aim with a ball will call the others aim with the ball, which will call the firsts aim with the ball. Etc etc.<br /> <br /> I guess after about a 1000 aims the jvm will throw you out, stating stack overflow, and the bonding game is over.</div>

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