Duncan Booth enlightened us with: > I would have thought that no matter how elaborate the checking it is > guaranteed there exist programs which are correct but your verifier > cannot prove that they are.
Yep, that's correct. I thought the argument was similar to the proof that no program (read: Turing machine) can determine whether a program will terminate or not. Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list