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		gowld on July 11, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Infinite work is less work Using "infinite" when you mean "lazily generated" is a large source of confusion for learners of math, computer science, and programming. Infinite things don't exist in computing, and infinite things in math are not the same as lazily-generated things. Conflating terminology makes the truth harder to understand. People prove statements about infinite objects and then misapply them to lazily-generated objects.

markstos on July 11, 2019 [–]

The infinity symbol is part of the code. This is about "the first N elements of an infinite sequence".

Explaining laziness without infinite lists makes laziness harder to understand.

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