On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:41:54 -0600, Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:45:23AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > Quoth Chad Perrin on Wednesday, 30 March 2011: > > > > > > We were speaking in analogies here, where the car *is* the operating > > > system -- so I think if it said "1/0" it would be more accurate to > > > say the "car" would crash. > > > > It's uncertain whether the car would crash, or run infinitely. > > Mathematically, that seems to be the case, but implementations tend to > result in crashy behavior -- or, quite often, raise exceptions.
We're talking about a car. It doesn't raise exceptions, it simply explodes! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
