On 9/29/06, Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> To be argumentative :) Certainly there are implementation limitations. For
> example, I would expect something to break, perhaps in a very bad way, if we
> set up a function call with some number of arguments -- I'm thinking 100,000
> or 100,000,000 or 4,000,000,000. So we're not really fixing it, just
> moving it into the distance. We are an imperfect model of math--
Agreed entirely. The best we can do is to make a definite imperfection
less probable. A former colleague used to call this "Whack-a-mole"
or "Bubbles in the waterbed".
Robert