From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID, PLING_QUERY,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public From: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk (Lawrence Kirby) Subject: Re: How big is an int? (was: Yet another stupid language war (was: ... the only languages you need!!)) Date: 1997/11/19 Message-ID: <879901314snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 290594234 Distribution: world References: <879381995snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <879433137snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <64fbr2$76k$1@route1.mdrf.france3.fr> X-Mail2News-User: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: genesis.demon.co.uk X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 879901551 21555 fred genesis.demon.co.uk Organization: none Reply-To: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy Date: 1997-11-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <64fbr2$76k$1@route1.mdrf.france3.fr> boyd@france3.fr "Boyd Roberts" writes: >In article <879433137snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>, fred@genesis.demon.co.uk > (Lawrence Kirby) writes: >>In article <879381995snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> >> fred@genesis.demon.co.uk "Lawrence Kirby" writes: >> >>... >> >>>Simply knowing a program is strictly conforming does not mean you can >>>predict what it will output. However if you do know what input a >>>strictly conforming program receives you should be able to predict from >>>the standard alone what output it generates (although I'm not 100% sure of >>>that). >> >>After sleeping on it it is fairly obvious that isn't true. > >Obviously, because you're talking about the halting problem. Seems to be the answer to everything. :-) -- ----------------------------------------- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com -----------------------------------------