Lambda: the Ultimate Design Flaw

[Greg Ewing]

Scott David Daniels wrote:
> Aahz wrote:
> 
>> You just can't have your cake and eat it, too.
> 
> I've always wondered about this turn of phrase.  I seldom
> eat a cake at one sitting.

You need to recursively subdivide the cake until
you have a piece small enough to fit in your input
buffer. Then the atomicity of the cake-ingestion
operation will become apparent.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg