[Haskell-cafe] Wikipedia on first-class object

[Lennart Augustsson]

Absolutly.  Every expression in Haskell denotes a value.
Now, we've not agreed what "value" means, but to me it is a value. :)

  -- Lennart

On Dec 27, 2007 3:28 PM, Cristian Baboi <cristi at ot.onrc.ro> wrote:

>
> How about x below:
>
> let x=(1:x) in x ?
>
> Is x a single value in Haskell ?
>
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> From: "Cristian Baboi" <cristi at ot.onrc.ro>
> To: "Lennart Augustsson" <lennart.augustsson at gmail.com>
> Cc: "haskell-cafe at haskell.org" <haskell-cafe at haskell.org>
> Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Wikipedia on first-class object
> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:08:58 +0200
>
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:02:36 +0200, Lennart Augustsson
> <lennart.augustsson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Comparing functions is certainly possible in Haskell, but there's no
> > standard function that does it.
> > If course, it might not terminate, but the same is true for many other
> > comparable objects in Haskell, e.g., infinite lists (which are
> > isomorphic to
> > Nat->T).
>
> The list [1 .. ] is a single value in Haskell ?
>
>
>
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