Re: More on lists and sets

Mikito Harakiri wrote:
> Collection algebras has been popular in the 90s, although I'm not sure
> how much progress has been made.

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It's unclear what the point of comparing a set to the list is. A list is a fundamentally recursive data structure, similar to say natural numbers. It's like comparing bricks to a building built of bricks.

> It is remarkable that list intersection laws mimic the ones for the
> union:
> A /\ A != A

This is not correct. Received on Tue Mar 21 2006 - 21:17:39 CST