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Isn't deliberate lack of purpose also a purpose?

"No."

I think the Dada art movement would disagree.

Still, their reply is clear.

"No."

The FAQ stated there wasn't a purpose to the hole. Not that their lack of purpose wasn't purposeful.

Two different things.

I tried digging into this, and got a stack overflow some 10 "no"s in.

It seems you need to manually implement tail recursion.

Of course, "Death of the Author" analysis allows one to disregard the author's intent in a work of art and find one's own meaning! ;)