[Haskell-cafe] Stream fusion for Hackage

[apfelmus]

Roman Leshchinskiy wrote:
> Ross Paterson wrote:
>
>> Hence I think the name should include the elements Data, List and
>> Coinductive (or Unfold as suggested by Malcolm).
> 
> I have to disagree here. Our streams can be used to model both inductive 
> (i.e. tail-strict) and coinductive lists. What data structure is being 
> modelled is not a property of the Stream data type but rather of the 
> stream operations. For inductive data types, we just have to make sure 
> that streams are always fully consumed.

Every inductive (=finite) list is also a coinductive (=potentially 
infinite) list but not vice-versa. So it's trivially true that if 
streams model coinductive types, they can also model inductive ones (in 
a language with _|_ that is, otherwise  fold  couldn't be expressed).


Regards,
apfelmus