25 Feb
2017
25 Feb
'17
9:32 a.m.
Just to link this to a previous discussion of this topic: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/haskell-cafe/2zpIvI0IBSc/MuHmTEUiswUJ Alexey. On Friday, February 24, 2017 at 3:06:16 AM UTC+1, Harendra Kumar wrote:
Kids have this amazing ability to break any toy in minutes. I gave my seven year old daughter ghci to play with and in a little while she said it is broken:
let 1 = 2
1
1
Earlier, I had explained to her about symbols and assigning values to symbols, and I said numbers are not symbols. But when she came up with this I could not explain what's going on. How can "1 = 2" be a valid equation? Am I missing something fundamental here, or it is just broken?
-harendra