On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 19:27:42 -0600, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> > declaimed the following: > >>While we're at it, I would like to petition for a function >>terminates(f, args) that I can use to determine whether a function >>will terminate before I actually call it. > > Maybe in a universe with different physical constants... > > Otherwise I think you have encountered > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem (consider: could your function > conclude that it terminates when fed it's own code)
Yes, that was the joke. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
