I think that what Joshua was talking about by ‘infinite loop’ is ‘passing through the same state an infinite number of times.’ That is, a /loop/, rather than just a line with no endpoint.
although this would rule out
(some arbitrary-size int type) x = 0;
while(true){
x++;
}
on a machine with infinite memory, as it would never pass through the same state twice. So maybe I’m still misunderstanding.
I think that what Joshua was talking about by ‘infinite loop’ is ‘passing through the same state an infinite number of times.’ That is, a /loop/, rather than just a line with no endpoint. although this would rule out (some arbitrary-size int type) x = 0; while(true){ x++; } on a machine with infinite memory, as it would never pass through the same state twice. So maybe I’m still misunderstanding.