On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 2:44 AM, Bill Page <[email protected]> wrote:
> I do not understand 'Boolean' as a category. The 'Boolean' domain
> satisfies the following categories: 'OrderedSet', 'Finite', 'Logic'.
> Thinking of Boolean as a category in the mathematical sense seems
> unnecessarily abstract.
>
> There is no reason that the two values in Boolean need to be
> represented internally by just two values. If that were the case then
> it would be appropriate also for Boolean to satisfy the category
> 'Canonical'.

You said Boolean has 'Finite', and size()$Boolean is 2.
So Boolean should have Canonical.  BTW, Canonical is not
used extensively in FriCAS, it is missing in many places.


>> This 'pretend' is much worse that CONSP.
>>
>
> In what sense?

Following previous section, this 'pretend' will be incorrect.
While CONSP returns either T or NIL.

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