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gpderetta
on Feb 2, 2023
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C was not created as an abstract machine
Ex falso quodlibet
chalst
on Feb 2, 2023
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...is taken as true but is a really lousy principle for modelling informal reasoning.
gpderetta
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Compilers and compiler writers don't rely on informal reasoning when deciding whether an optimization is valid
chalst
on Feb 3, 2023
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This can be modelled formally: just drop the ex falso quodlibet axiom and its equivalents.
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