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[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Boolean functions have potentially infinite return states depending on error handling

  • True
  • False
  • NA
  • NULL
  • Error1 "You done messed up."
  • Error2 "You done messed up differently. But again."
  • Error3 "My tender bosom heaves in anguish"

etc

[-] Subscript5676@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

Not in my functional language with no nulls :P

[-] wischi@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It still can panic/abort and deadlock/wait infinitely long on most fp languages because that's typically implied. And there isn't actually a way around that because computation almost always can fail or block indefinitely - and if you have a total language you can implement waits for billions of years, which for all practical purposes is "infinitely" long on human time scales.

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