[Haskell-cafe] There can be only one fix? Pondering Bekic's lemma

[Nicolas Frisby]

Nope, but I believe the two are equipotent. This usage of "believe" is
one of those "I think I remember reading it somewhere" usages.

On 3/19/07, Henning Thielemann <lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Nicolas Frisby wrote:
>
> > Bekic's lemma [1], allows us to transform nested fixed points into a
> > single fixed point, such as:
> >
> > fix (\x -> fix (\y -> f (x, y))) = fix f     where f :: (a, a) -> a
>
> The 'fix' on the right hand side is not the standard one (e.g.
> Control.Monad.Fix), is it?
>