Lambda: the Ultimate Design Flaw

[Robin Becker]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> 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.
> 
Ok course according to Tarski we can cut the cake up so it increases in volume.
The slices have to be immeasurable, but the final volume can be almost anything.
I bet that makes cake buffering harder to plan for.

-paradoxically yrs-
Robin Becker