I have no idea why this is even slightly neat? Like, it's not surprising that it works, it's not clever, it's not performant, and you can't actually code like this because it will overflow the stack pretty quickly. It doesn't even save lines of code.

Alternatives that aren't dumb:

  for x in range(2**256):  # not infinite but go ahead and run it to the end and get back to me

  from itertools import repeat
  for x, _ in enumerate(repeat(None)):  # slightly more annoying but does work infinitely

Granted these aren't clever or non-performant enough to excite functional code fanboys.