From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2009-02-22T01:56:39+09:00
Subject: Re: while vs loop

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Jeff Schwab <jeff@schwabcenter.com> wrote:
> Rick DeNatale wrote:
>
>> Anything purporting to be an infinite loop which runs faster than
>> something
>> which is an infinite loop is, by definition NOT an infinite loop!
>> <G>
>
> Not sure Georg Cantor would agree with you.  One infinite loop might only go
> through a countable (but infinite) number of iterations, i.e. aleph null,
> whereas another might go through an uncountable number of iterations.
Might it? I do not think so! I believe that a Turing complete language
can only loop countable times, which of course should be fixed ;).
R.

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