thomblake comments on Counterfactual Mugging v. Subjective Probability - Less Wrong

1 Post author: MBlume 20 July 2009 04:31PM

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Comment author: CannibalSmith 20 July 2009 09:51:29PM -1 points [-]

But they will never happen! That's like... like
void f(unsigned int i) { if ( i < 0) throw "Invalid argument."; }
!

What principles are being tested here?

Comment author: thomblake 20 July 2009 10:23:06PM 0 points [-]

Well, that can test whether your compiler / language actually does anything when you declare i an unsigned int. Yes, there are some that will happily accept 'unsigned' and throw it away.