Re: looping
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- Subject: [mg107026] Re: looping
- From: Martha Fateman <mnfateman at gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 06:10:01 -0500 (EST)
- References: <201001210955.EAA16523@smc.vnet.net> <201001251008.FAA09381@smc.vnet.net>
On Jan 31, 2:58 am, Noqsi <j... at noqsi.com> wrote: > > What you call proper I call less capable. I may be using Leonid's > techniques in the future. Less capable in that Mathematica is capable of errors that a correct implementation could not commit. I think the only "plus" is that the renaming allows one to use the same debugging tools some of the time. "Continuations" which you think are too esoteric, is an underlying implementation technique that can, and has, been used to provide remarkable facilities, some of which you probably would like. Like resuming the computation of terms in a Taylor series when you decide you need more. Or resuming an iteration after exiting with an error indication. Or implementing search with backtracking in a trivial fashion. And other ideas that have clear applications in computer algebra systems.