23 Oct
2015
23 Oct
'15
3:49 p.m.
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 11:45:13AM -0400, Charles Durham wrote:
Let's say you have a function "thisFold :: (a -> a -> a) -> [a] -> a"
and it says that the function 'f' passed in must be associative.
Then it goes on to use f in "thisFold f [0,1,2]" like "f (1 (f 0 2))". Obviously f is still associative, but 'thisFold' did not call f 'associatively' on the data. My question is if there is a name for what property this broke by not calling f 'associatively'.
Does that make sense?
I don't think it makes sense. You're asking whether there's a *name* for the property it broke, but is there even a property it broke at all? If so, can you write the property down (without naming it)? Tom