Why version() ?

[John Reimer]

Hello Don,

> bearophile wrote:
> 
>> Don:
>> 
>>> I requested module-scope static if, and Walter said "that's probably
>>> almost impossible to implement", but he did it anyway <g>.
>>> 
>> Walter does almost the impossible, sometimes. I'll have to remember
>> this :-)
>> 
>> Bye,
>> bearophile
> The traditional way to get an engineer to do something, is to tell him
> you believe it's impossible. Works very well with Walter.
> Also Walter tends not to promise to do something, unless he's already
> finished it <g>.


So I assume it must follow that engineers should never be taught computational 
complexity theory... determining that a problem is intractable might affect 
their attempts at ingenious solutions that shouldn't exist. :D


-JJR