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DrJokepu on Nov 22, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Non-terminating compilation in Java

While I would never miss a chance to bash Java, it really looks like it's just a bug in the compiler. The input that triggers it is definitely not code that you see in production every day. I'm sure that it will be fixed eventually.

kmm on Nov 23, 2011 | [–]

This looks like a self-referential issue. If anything, it's a bug in mathematics.

skrebbel on Nov 23, 2011 | | [–]

> If anything, it's a bug in mathematics.

I heard the next release will fix that.

agentgt on Nov 23, 2011 | | | [–]

With the myriad unprovable universe theories (GUT) that are coming out anything is possible :)

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