It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.

It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.

Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.

And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).

To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.

Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.

It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.