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[Michael Torrie]

On 06/21/2013 07:41 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Nice idea from a theoretical point of view, but practicality beats
> purity, and most people know their functions will terminate (that's
> what Ctrl-C is for). No, I want a function isbuggy(f) to find out
> whether a function is, well, buggy. We could abolish all unit-testing
> if we had that.

That's awesome.  I laughed out loud when I read Ian's comment, though it
took me longer than I should have needed to notice your tongue firmly in
your cheek as well.