On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
>> That's something I definitely want for tuples but probably not for lists, >> although there's definitely a bit of room for interpretation, here (the >> regular interpretation for a list expects the ordering to be preserved but >> if you look at List from the monad perspective, a list is just an >> enumeration of multiple outcomes, and the ordering is meaningless). >> > > Not so! A list has a very definite concept of maintaining its sequence; > it's Set that doesn't. > Yes for values, more disputable for types. Basically, it's not quite clear to me what the type of List(1, "a") is: is it a sequence of an integer followed by a string (and in that order exclusively) or is it a list of anything as long as it's an integer or a string? -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
