On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 05:39:14PM +0000, Andy Farnell wrote: > > but it would still run into those problems of finding an arbitrary > > condition to trigger the 'halt' > > Hmmmm, there's beard stroker. :)
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem> "Alan Turing proved in 1936 that a general algorithm to solve the halting problem for all possible program-input pairs cannot exist." Best, Chris. ------------------- http://mccormick.cx _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list