Re: [Spoon-business] Re: [spoon-discuss] insta-rule questions

[bd <bdonlan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Friday 04 April 2003 09:15 am, Rob Speer wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:45:18PM -0500, Daniel Lepage wrote:
> > >It hasn't already been destroyed; it's in the process of being
> > >destroyed. So that doesn't work. But why is that line necessary at all?
> >
> > Because it's a list of things that happen "when an insta-rule is
> > destroyed"; if that list includes destroying the insta-rule, then it'll
> > recursively call itself indefinitely.
>
> _I_ know that. What I asked is, why does destroying itself have to be a
> step in destroying itself, even inside an infinite-loop-proof wrapper?

It makes the wording simpler. I'll have my computer back up in time for the 
next proposing cycle (probably), so shelve it if you want.

- -- 
bd
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	Talk about willing people... over half of them are willing to work
	and the others are more than willing to watch them.
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