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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: A function that cannot be called?
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 20:34:30 -0500
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"G.B." <bauhaus@notmyhomepage.invalid> wrote in message 
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> The members of the functionist faction will turn their eyes
> towards the cieling in dispair:
> it is these weird functions involving uninhabited types that have
> turned out to be essential for the interplay between logicians
> and computer scientists discovering practical solutions. For
> example, what about a type system that guarantees termination?

It's this sort of babble that makes me want to ignore formal models of 
anything and just get my freaking work done. :-)

                                         Randy.