On Jul 17, 2009 1:40pm, Thomas Hartman wrote:
> my question to all 3 (so far) respondants is, how does your
>
> explanation explain that the result is the power set?
>
>
I guess you forgot to reply to the cafe.
Well, to me the modified definition I posted looks like the essence of
powerset, the set of all subsets. Every element x of the input list
divides the powerset in 2 halves, the first one contains x, the second
one doesn't. Filtering on the non-deterministic predicate (\x -> return
True `mplus` return False) in the List monad does exactly that.
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