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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: The state of functional programming
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On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:01:35 +0000 (UTC), Warren wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov expounded in
> news:17hhchqy1a2si.1akul43vk1sd9.dlg@40tude.net: 
> 
>> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:19:49 +0000 (UTC), Warren wrote:

>>> But FP cannot always solve that "problem".
>> 
>> Same in Ada. Not every legal Ada program is compilable. 
> 
> If an Ada program doesn't compile, then the programmer
> hasn't spelled out the "how" correctly has he?  

   X : constant := 2**(2**(2**(2**9999_9999))) + 1:

is pretty much clear "how", legal, but not compilable.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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