Re: What is the Result from Invoking this Halt Function?

From: Simon G Best (s.g.best_at_btopenworld.com)
Date: 08/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 02:22:14 +0000 (UTC)

Peter Olcott wrote:
> "Simon G Best" <s.g.best@btopenworld.com> wrote in message news:41200F7C.4080309@btopenworld.com...
>
>>Peter Olcott wrote:
>>
>>>We could focus our discussion on answering this one question:
>>>Does there exist any possible case where returing a result to a caller
>>>as opposed to failing to return a result to the caller can actually
>>>change the value of the result itself?
>>
>>You mean you don't know?!?!? Of course it can't "change the value of
>>the result"!!!!!
>
> I can see each step one at a time. Its about as hard for me to see
> as the answer of adding up a half dozen single digit integers using
> a calculator. No one else here has seen this because they insist
> on substituting false assumptions for reasoning. My statement
> goes directly against the grain of common sense, yet is still true
> none-the-less. Most fallible humans tend to take common sense
> as equivalent to infallible truth. Its not. Meet me in the micro
> analysis of this point.

Too late. Too many other participants in these newsgroups are voicing
displeasure with these on-going threads. So, I'm stopping.

String B: "Peter Olcott will never know string B to constitute a true,
valid statement."

Peter Olcott will never know string B to constitute a true, valid statement.

Simon

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