XPost: alt.usage.english, comp.lang.lisp   
   From: HenHanna@devnull.tb   
      
   On 6/21/2024 1:09 AM, Blue-Maned_Hawk wrote:   
   > HenHanna wrote:   
   >   
   >>   > (Don’t type just (lrange 0) in REPL, or it won’t terminate!)   
   >>   >   
   >>                      <-- This sounds  slightly odd.  Do you agree?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> There would be 2 kinds of Non-termination.   
   >>   
   >>              1. If you enter (lrange 0) into REPL, it will hang.   
   >>   
   >>              2. Entering (lrange 0) in REPL would print an infinite list.   
   >>   
   >> i can't guess which is the case for Gauche.   
   >   
      
      
   > Oh, i just thought you meant that it was weird that it would allow   
   > unterminating constructs in the REPL in the first place.  Seeing as how   
   > the previous bits of the documentation already state that the evaluated   
   > result of (lrange 0) is an infinite list, i would assume that the ‘it’ in   
   > “it won't terminate” refers to the REPL (or rather that command in the   
   > REPL).   
   >   
      
      
   as a matter of English Usage...   
      
    >> (Don’t type just (lrange 0) in REPL, or it won’t terminate!)   
      
                  i think this sounds too wordy and awkward.   
      
   Moreover... my 2 alternatives are more informative.   
      
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