Re: recursive relationship
From: <joe_celko_at_my-deja.com>
Date: 2000/01/24
Message-ID: <86ibv2$v79$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1
Date: 2000/01/24
Message-ID: <86ibv2$v79$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1
>> Wrong way round. An extensional definition lists the exemplars, and
an intenSional one uses rules. <<
Ouch! I am getting sloppy. Thanks!
>> This is usually called a base case. A fixed point (or fixpoint) of
a function is something else (a value x such that f(x) = x). <<
Isn't there another name for it? I am at work and I coudlnot get to a book at home anyway because my seciton of town is in its second day of an ice storm that took out electrical power.
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