Re: [pure-lang-users] Runaway trains

[John L. <joh...@gm...>]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Eddie Rucker <er...@bm...> wrote:
> On my box:
>  > -(a);
>  -a
>
> So the lhs is the same as the rhs already.

Ah, I didn't realize that was already defined. Should have checked I suppose!

> The second one sounds
> weird and something seems wrong with quiting. Memory usage should be
> constant because nothing is being allocated, the interpreter is just
> firing the same rule over and over.

I've been trying to replicate it, but haven't managed to.
Interestingly, memory usage was constant for a while, about 9MB, and
then dropped to 160KB after a while. Of course, I am on Windows here
in work, so those figures could mean anything!

> The interpreter is just going to evaluate whatever rule you give it. If
> you code "while (1) ;" in C the resulting program is going sit there and
> loop until you kill it.

Yeah, now that I see that LHS and RHS are equal, that's fine.

Thanks,
John