Re: [pure-lang-users] Runaway trains

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

John Lunney wrote:
> So I entered the following line:
> -(a) = -a;

I don't understand what you're trying to do there. (a) is just a, so you 
might just as well write 'loop = loop;' instead. In either case it's a 
tail-recursive loop which will run forever.

> Another time I tried it, Pure just quit with no error.

I can't reproduce that, I always get the same expected non-terminating 
behaviour. Maybe you killed and restarted the interpreter, and forgot to 
reenter the equation before starting the evaluation?

Albert

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