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==A better sentence?==
"The Amb operator takes some number of expressions (or values if that's simpler in the language) and nondeterministically yields the one or fails if given no parameter, amb returns the value that doesn't lead to failure."
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--[[User:Sluggo|Sluggo]] 22:20, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
: Non-termination presents a problem for continuations and threads also; they don't solve the issue at all of when a branch of the computation fails by not terminating! Processing is stuck there, that is all. Exception handling isn't in an of itself a solution; rather, nonlocal control transfers can support an explicit backtracking solution by providing a convenient direct branch to some earlier "top level" in cases when failure or success are confirmed.
For my part, and demonstrated by my VBScript entry, I don't think I understood the task at all. I don't think many did. Even after reading all this, I'm still not sure I do. I did have fun, all the same, coming up with the VBScript code. --[[User:Axtens|Axtens]] 08:47, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
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