On 11/11/12 06:49, Peter Alexander wrote: > On Sunday, 11 November 2012 at 12:33:25 UTC, Manfred Nowak wrote: >> a) Instantiability is decidable >> Why does the compiler stop with the evaluation at that randomly >> choosen and apparently hard coded value of 500 recursive >> expansions? > > It's not decidable. Consider use of static if. It's Turing complete. I > can give an example if you like. >
I'd like. An example might help me better understand why it's undecidable. [snip]