>I think copying and pasting could be justified as "evaluating". Infinitely copying and pasting is justified to encode the state, but not to encode the transit

>I think copying and pasting could be justified as "evaluating". Infinitely copying and pasting is justified to encode the state, but not to encode the transition function, as is the case here to emulate loops. To encode an infinite loop would require an infinitely long SVG, but a Turing machine requires that the transition function be finitely encoded. As someone on the GitHub commented, "If you can not construct an SVG that never halts (finishes drawing) SVG can not be turing complete." https://github.com/tom-p-reichel/svg-is-turing-complete/issues/1#issuecomment-531740473 https://github.com/tom-p-reichel/svg-is-turing-complete/issu... Edit: more explicitly, for each state, the user has to manually add the line <use href="#line[n - 1]" y="30" id="line[n]" filter="url(#rule110)"/> manually updating n themselves each time. This means that the transition function is "encoded" by the human, not the SVG code itself.