Re: Lengthy numbers

Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote or quoted:

ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

So in theory, this would crank out an infinite list that looks like
[0, 0, 0, 0, ...]. In the real world, though, if you try to print or
use this list, your program will probably freeze up faster than the
405 at rush hour.

The freeze-up happens as soon as you create the list.

  I'm stoked you caught that! You hit the nail on the head -
  that resource-hogging calculation goes down when the expression's
  evaluated. No need to "print or use this list" to see it happen.