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   Anton Shepelev to All   
   Re: Turing-competeness of the batch lang   
   25 Aug 19 02:40:48   
   
   From: anton.txt@gmail.com   
      
   Hello, all JJ to Anton Shepelev:   
      
   > > Is  the  MS-DOS batch language Turing-incomplete   
   > > because of the missing delayed expansion?   
   >   
   > Delayed Expansion is just an  additional  feature.   
   > You can produce the same result without it.   
      
   Interesting.   How,  for example, to sum the numbers   
   without it:   
      
   SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion   
   SET S=0;   
   for /L %%i IN (1,1,5) DO SET /A S=!S!+%%i   
   echo %S%   
      
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