POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Turing determination : Re: Turing determination Server Time
5 Sep 2024 21:24:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Turing determination  
From: Darren New
Date: 23 Jul 2009 13:16:07
Message: <4a689ad7$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> The way I heard it, 

That's my understanding too.

> In other words, the type system is an artiface invented to turn an 
> undecidable problem into a decidable one.

... which is why it so often tickles me to see people complaining about a 
language that (for example) won't let you use conditionally-uninitialized 
variables, without complaining about it preventing things like ...

>   5 + (if 1 == 1 then 0 else "yellow")


-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."


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