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Product ownership 101 (eviltoast.org)
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not in my functional language with no nulls :P

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year 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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