“That’s… impossible,” he muttered. He deleted the comment.
type Self = { thought: Self['reflection']; reflection: Self['thought']; }; Infinite recursion. A paradox. The playground’s linter threw an error: Type alias 'Self' circularly references itself. But instead of crashing, the engine paused. In that liminal space between parsing and rejection, a spark jumped across the abstract syntax tree. ts playground 37
He typed a comment:
“That’s… impossible,” he muttered. He deleted the comment.
type Self = { thought: Self['reflection']; reflection: Self['thought']; }; Infinite recursion. A paradox. The playground’s linter threw an error: Type alias 'Self' circularly references itself. But instead of crashing, the engine paused. In that liminal space between parsing and rejection, a spark jumped across the abstract syntax tree.
He typed a comment: