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From: olcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.theory
Subject: Re: Sequence of sequence, selection and iteration matters --- Ben
 agrees
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 08:48:53 -0500
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On 7/10/2024 2:42 AM, Mikko wrote:
> On 2024-07-09 11:29:20 +0000, Richard Damon said:
> 
>> On 7/9/24 2:35 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>> On 2024-07-09 01:30:01 +0000, Richard Damon said:
>>>
>>>> On 7/8/24 8:51 PM, olcott wrote:
>>>>> On 7/8/2024 7:31 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
>>>>>> On 7/8/24 8:21 PM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When you need groceries you cannot say that you
>>>>>>> don't need groceries until AFTER you get more groceries.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Which is just Red Herring, as I am not a program, and the program 
>>>>>> is not me.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Free will does not make lies into truth.
>>>>> If HHH reports that DDD does not need to abort
>>>>> DDD before HHH aborts DDD then HHH is a liar.
>>>>
>>>> How can HHH "report" something while it is still running?
>>>
>>> If HHH is not a pure function it can have side effects while still
>>> running. A side effect can "report".
>>>
>>
>> But he keeps on insting that HHH *IS* a pure function, and that we are 
>> stupid if we forget that when he forgets to keep it in the description 
>> because HE is allowed to be sloppy, but we can't take benefit from that.
> 
> In such situations I may point out that OP did not require pure function
> (or whatever he forgot to require).
> 

If I don't say pure function then Richard tries to get away
with cheating. I stopped saying it so that people that do not
know what a pure function is wouldn't get confused.

-- 
Copyright 2024 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer