Lambda: the Ultimate Design Flaw

[Bill Mill]

On Apr 7, 2005 1:15 AM, Greg Ewing <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> 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.
> 

+1 QOTW