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Exercise 4.15: Given a one-argument procedure
p and an object a, p is said to “halt” on a if
evaluating the expression (p a) returns a value (as opposed to
terminating with an error message or running forever). Show that it is
impossible to write a procedure halts? that correctly determines whether
p halts on a for any procedure p and object a. Use
the following reasoning: If you had such a procedure halts?, you could
implement the following program:
(define (run-forever)
(run-forever))
(define (try p)
(if (halts? p p)
(run-forever)
'halted))
Now consider evaluating the expression (try try) and show that any
possible outcome (either halting or running forever) violates the intended
behavior of halts?.227