Re: [Haskell-cafe] Functional progr., images, laziness and alltherest

2006-06-23 Thread Chris Kuklewicz
Brian Hulley wrote: Piotr Kalinowski wrote: On 22/06/06, Brian Hulley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, why do people accept that infinity == infinity + 1 ? Surely this expression is just ill-typed. infinity can't be a number. This equation is just a shortcut, so I can't see how can it

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Functional progr., images, laziness and alltherest

2006-06-22 Thread Jared Updike
Therefore the list of non-negative integers is longer than the list of positive integers. I agree they have the same cardinality but this doesn't mean they have the same length. Are you saying that some of the (0,1,2,3,4,5,...), (1,2,3,4,5,...) and (1-1,2-1,3-1,4-1,5-1,...) lists have

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Functional progr., images, laziness and alltherest

2006-06-22 Thread Brian Hulley
Stepan Golosunov wrote: On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 03:32:25PM +0100, Brian Hulley wrote: Bill Wood wrote: On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 15:16 +0100, Brian Hulley wrote: . . . But how does this change the fact that y still has 1 more element than yq? yq is after all, not a circular list. I don't see why

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Functional progr., images, laziness and alltherest

2006-06-22 Thread Bill Wood
On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 20:13 +0100, Brian Hulley wrote: . . . filter function), I can reason about my programs without entering the areas of maths that I don't believe in, which is one more reason for my desire to have a totally strict version of Haskell ;-) This may also explain why

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Functional progr., images, laziness and alltherest

2006-06-22 Thread Piotr Kalinowski
On 22/06/06, Brian Hulley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... This doesn't mean that these contradictions reflect reality - just that maths hasn't yet reached a true understanding of reality imho. Well, I for instance believe that contradiction IS the true nature of reality... ;) For example, why

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Functional progr., images, laziness and alltherest

2006-06-22 Thread Brian Hulley
Piotr Kalinowski wrote: On 22/06/06, Brian Hulley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... This doesn't mean that these contradictions reflect reality - just that maths hasn't yet reached a true understanding of reality imho. Well, I for instance believe that contradiction IS the true nature of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Functional progr., images, laziness and alltherest

2006-06-22 Thread Piotr Kalinowski
On 23/06/06, Brian Hulley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This equation is just a shortcut, so I can't see how can it be ill-typed. It means something like: if you add one element to an infinite list, will it be longer? What does your intuition say about this? It won't be longer. How can it be?