<div class="gmail_quote">On 15 June 2010 02:06, Eli Barzilay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eli@barzilay.org">eli@barzilay.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Jun 14, David Rush wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> On 14 June 2010 16:27, Eli Barzilay <<a href="mailto:eli@barzilay.org">eli@barzilay.org</a>> wrote: </div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">> > currently (RnRS) Scheme is guessing wrong in >99% of the cases,</div><div class="im">
> > and it makes it extremely hard for me to correct it.<br>
><br>
> This is FUD. The occurrence of the class of bugs for which you have<br>
> highlighted the potential is *far* (orders of magnitude) lower than<br>
> this. You have a point, and it is a real problem from a provability<br>
> standpoint,<br>
<br>
</div>(And that's the pretentiousness. I started by saying that I have no<br>
interest in provability.)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I said that the bug hardly ever occurs in practice. Personally, I have *never* seen it, so as far as I can tell it is entirely a theoretical possibility (much like the exponential blow-up in HM type inference). I apologize if that seems pretentious.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">And now you can dismiss this with a "Puh-lease", </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hardly. I said I see your point. But the cost/benefit score for me sees very little benefit for the cost.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">(And this is my bus stop.)</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thank you for riding Contentious Bus Lines. It was good to have you aboard. </div>
</div><div><br></div>david<br>-- <br>GPG Public key at <a href="http://cyber-rush.org/drr/gpg-public-key.txt">http://cyber-rush.org/drr/gpg-public-key.txt</a><br>