Lambda: the Ultimate Design Flaw

[Steve Holden]

Robin Becker wrote:
> Greg Ewing wrote:
> 
>> Scott David Daniels wrote:
>>
>>> Aahz wrote:
>>>
>>>> You just can't have your cake and eat it, too.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I've always wondered about this turn of phrase.  I seldom
>>> eat a cake at one sitting.
>>
>>
>>
>> You need to recursively subdivide the cake until
>> you have a piece small enough to fit in your input
>> buffer. Then the atomicity of the cake-ingestion
>> operation will become apparent.
>>
> Ok course according to Tarski we can cut the cake up so it increases in 
> volume.
> The slices have to be immeasurable, but the final volume can be almost 
> anything.
> I bet that makes cake buffering harder to plan for.
> 
> -paradoxically yrs-
> Robin Becker
> 
Not at all - we just apply the same division techniques to the buffer 
space until we can map the pieces of cake one-to-one onto the buffers.

stick-that-in-your-cakehole-ly y'rs  - steve
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