29 Jun
2002
29 Jun
'02
6:26 p.m.
On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Samuel E. Moelius III wrote: (snip)
Here's another not-exactly-what-you-wanted solution. :) (snip)
Do any of the experimental extensions to Haskell allow a what-he-wanted solution? I couldn't arrange one in H98 without something having an infinitely-recursive type signature. I'm sure it would have been easy in Lisp, and he already gave a Perl equivalent, so I'm wondering if it could be at all sane for Haskell to allow such stuff and if Haskell is somehow keeping us on the straight and narrow by disallowing the exact counter that was originally requested. The beauty of his request was that it was so simple and seemed to make sense; I went ahead and tried to fulfill it before realising I couldn't do it either. -- Mark