On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:45:23AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
> Quoth Chad Perrin on Wednesday, 30 March 2011:
> > 
> > We were speaking in analogies here, where the car *is* the operating
> > system -- so I think if it said "1/0" it would be more accurate to
> > say the "car" would crash.
> 
> It's uncertain whether the car would crash, or run infinitely.

Mathematically, that seems to be the case, but implementations tend to
result in crashy behavior -- or, quite often, raise exceptions.

-- 
Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

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