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Comment by vrighter

25 days ago

So you want the program to always halt at some point. How would you write a deterministic test for it?

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te7447  25 days ago

I imagine you would use something that errs on the side of safety - e.g. insist on total functional programming and use something like Idris' totality checker.

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