Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: olcott Newsgroups: comp.theory Subject: Re: Who here understands that the last paragraph is Necessarily true? Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 09:38:31 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 49 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 16:38:32 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="315e0a3cec91d4c915c12e3bad83b2c9"; logging-data="198056"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19YgyDd3gxG9lbY4AGeQSmq" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:8fwWgdJKbv5Y0agb70FxrnRpu/U= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2216 On 7/14/2024 3:09 AM, Mikko wrote: > On 2024-07-13 20:15:56 +0000, olcott said: > >> typedef void (*ptr)(); >> int HHH(ptr P); >> >> void Infinite_Loop() >> { >>    HERE: goto HERE; >> } >> >> void Infinite_Recursion() >> { >>    Infinite_Recursion(); >> } >> >> void DDD() >> { >>    HHH(DDD); >> } >> >> int main() >> { >>    HHH(Infinite_Loop); >>    HHH(Infinite_Recursion); >>    HHH(DDD); >> } >> >> Any input that must be aborted to prevent the non >> termination of HHH necessarily specifies non-halting >> behavior or it would never need to be aborted. > > Everyone understands that DDD specifies a halting behaviour if HHH(DDD) > does, *You can comprehend this is a truism or fail to* *comprehend it disagreement is necessarily incorrect* Any input that must be aborted to prevent the non termination of HHH necessarily specifies non-halting behavior or it would never need to be aborted. Disagreeing with the above is analogous to disagreeing with arithmetic. -- Copyright 2024 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer