[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Cheat Sheet?

Jonathan Cast jcast at ou.edu
Wed Sep 26 17:12:27 EDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 11:43 -0700, Dan Weston wrote:
> It seems no one liked idea #2. I still think fix is the wrong name for 
> this, maybe limit would be better.

It calculates least fixed points.  `fix' is as good a name as any.

`limit' is terrible; the argument to fix, a -> a, is neither a sequence
nor diagram nor net type, and hence its values don't have limits...

jcc

PS Yes, I know fix a = sup_{i=0}^inf f^i(bot).  That sequence is rather
different than the input function...





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