[Haskell-cafe] Re: Wikipedia on first-class object

[Daniel Fischer]

Am Freitag, 28. Dezember 2007 17:27 schrieb Achim Schneider:

> > Both have an infinite number of 1.  Why do you say “always”?  It
> > seems that you think of x and y as “variables” whose values change
> > over time.  This is not the case.  They both have a single value for
> > all time: the infinite list consisting only of 1.
>
> Does that then mean that
> [1] = [1,1]
> ?
>
No, it means you cannot distinguish (repeat 1) from (cycle [1,1]).

Is infinity an even number or an odd one?

Cheers,
Daniel