Ah, so `fail!()` is not okay, but `loop { }` is okay.
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Pierre Talbot <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's a diverging function in the sense of the manual:
> http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/rust.html#diverging-functions
>
> On 01/29/2014 11:21 AM, Gábor Lehel wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Pierre Talbot <[email protected] <mailto:
>> [email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> I add: a pure function can call extern code and diverges, so the
>> pure requirements are a subset of the CTFE requirements.
>>
>>
>> How do you plan to enforce that a function won't diverge?
>>
>> Are there any systems which allow calling functions and enforce
>> convergence without using dependent types?
>>
>> (We could probably enforce it by prohibiting both mutual and
>> self-recursion as well as loops, but I'm guessing this would be too
>> restrictive to be acceptable.)
>>
>>
>> Pierre
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