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From: "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: on adding a function call to a s-exp
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 18:32:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736xq7fsz.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86a7rytyxs.fsf@zoho.com> (Emanuel Berg's message of "Wed, 13 Jun 2018 18:48:31 +0200")

Berg writes:

> As you see, this is all-deterministic, no guessing

It's simpler.  Most programs are deterministic (certainly mine try to
be).  When a program doesn't force you to fully consider the conditions
that determine its behaviour, and still does what you wanted, if can be
said to be guessing.  But it's really not, because it's a machine ;)

João



  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-13 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-09 22:05 on adding a function call to a s-exp Robert Girault
2018-06-10  2:38 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-06-10  4:46   ` João Távora
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1619.1528606007.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-06-11  1:04     ` Robert Girault
2018-06-11  1:30       ` Noam Postavsky
2018-06-12 14:40         ` João Távora
2018-06-12 21:34           ` Noam Postavsky
     [not found]       ` <mailman.1644.1528680649.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-06-11 14:29         ` Robert Girault
2018-06-12 14:24       ` João Távora
     [not found]       ` <mailman.1739.1528813488.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-06-13 21:06         ` Robert Girault
2018-06-10 21:28 ` Xavier Maillard
     [not found] ` <mailman.1614.1528598292.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-06-11  0:59   ` Robert Girault
2018-06-11  1:21     ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-06-11  1:26       ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-06-11  2:18       ` Michael Heerdegen
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1642.1528680086.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-06-11 14:35       ` Robert Girault
2018-06-12 14:34         ` João Távora
2018-06-12 15:14           ` Óscar Fuentes
2018-06-12 16:17             ` Drew Adams
2018-06-12 16:26               ` João Távora
2018-06-13  7:11               ` Andreas Röhler
2018-06-13 10:44               ` João Távora
2018-06-13 14:39                 ` Drew Adams
2018-06-13 15:31                   ` João Távora
2018-06-13 16:03                     ` Drew Adams
2018-06-13 16:01                 ` Andreas Röhler
2018-06-13 16:17                   ` João Távora
     [not found]                   ` <mailman.1823.1528906669.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-06-13 16:48                     ` Emanuel Berg
2018-06-13 17:32                       ` João Távora [this message]
2018-06-13 18:23                       ` Drew Adams
     [not found]                       ` <mailman.1848.1528914250.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-06-13 19:18                         ` Emanuel Berg
2018-06-12 16:24             ` João Távora
2018-06-12 17:00               ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-06-12 17:04               ` Óscar Fuentes
2018-06-12 17:07                 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-06-12 17:19                   ` João Távora
2018-06-12 17:26                     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-06-12 17:16                 ` João Távora
     [not found]             ` <mailman.1747.1528820272.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-06-13 21:09               ` Robert Girault
     [not found]         ` <mailman.1740.1528814086.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-06-13 21:02           ` Robert Girault
2018-06-13 21:32             ` João Távora
     [not found] ` <mailman.1637.1528666199.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-06-11  1:05   ` Robert Girault

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