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On Sat, 22 Jun 2013 12:57:07 -0600, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber
><wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 19:27:42 -0600, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
>> declaimed the following:
>>
>>>While we're at it, I would like to petition for a function
>>>terminates(f, args) that I can use to determine whether a function
>>>will terminate before I actually call it.
>>
>>         Maybe in a universe with different physical constants...
>>
>>         Otherwise I think you have encountered
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem (consider: could your function
>> conclude that it terminates when fed it's own code)
>
>Yes, that was the joke.

	Given some of the personalities here, making sure the irony was
revealed could be useful...

	Yes, I suspected it was humor... Some might have taken it literally.
-- 
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