<div dir="ltr">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:<div><br></div><div>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">>> let 1 = 2</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">>> 1</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">1</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">>> </span></p><p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">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?</span></p><p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">-harendra</span></p></div></div>