Any repetition of a variable as an extension of that hierarchy is recursive, hence cyclical.PeteOlcott wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2019 8:19 pmOnce structured programming eliminated spaghetti code we had to give up spaghetti code programmingSkepdick wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2019 8:10 pmCoding standards do prevent infinite loops. I already told you that.PeteOlcott wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2019 7:16 pm If coding standards prevent infinite loops then infinite loops will
not occur in any programs conforming to these programming standards.
Total functional programming
Coding standards are also a form of Linguistic prescription.
Since I didn't ignore it, you are a liar.
I asked you this question 9 days ago.
Skepdick wrote: ↑Sun Aug 11, 2019 8:45 am It seems to me that in your pursuit for disambiguation, you are really after a formal system with normalisation.
A lambda calculus system with the normalisation property can be viewed as a programming language with the property that every program terminates. Although this is a very useful property, it has a drawback: a programming language with the normalisation property cannot be Turing complete.
So back to the question of giving up expressive power. If you are asking me to give up Turing completeness, what are you offering in return?
yet what remained was sufficiently expressive to express anything that need be expressed.
Likewise when representing the set of all conceptual knowledge in a directed acyclic graph.
X as the apex of a localized hierarchy may contain y, y1, y2, etc. but because all y's are subcategories of x they effectively are variations of x. This is not different than all numbers being variations of a recursive 1, all evens a variation of a recursive 2, triads as 3, etc.
Hierarchies are strings of inherent cycles with the last remaining element of that hierarchy necessitating a loop back to the origin.
1 recursively existing to infinity effectively necessitates infinity looping back as 1 infinity with the loop expanding.
There is no acyclicalicity, at best an assymetric progressive string that effectively acts dually as an assymetric loop of specific variables of an assumed axis of the hiereirrchal apes that necessitates the apex as not only ever present but apex as an inherent middle.
Any balanced system is assymetric by nature due to the apex not being at a relative top but rather a center. Linear Hierarchies, up and down, are relativistic and contradictory.