streams (was: Re: Itertools)

[Ng Pheng Siong]

According to Mike Rovner <mike at bindkey.com>:
> I made an intensive search on internet and convinced now that term 'streams'
> is globaly associated with i/o. I still think using this term for universal
> data
> structure will be misleading. However I can't come with a good word
> (my best is LazyList).

Once upon a time, in the days of 386BSD, certain people claimed to be
reinnovating Sys V streams for 386BSD, which were to be called "currents".

Somehow this episode stuck in my mind. (I think it was the sound of a
balloon bursting from too much hot air. ;-)


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