Re: streams are cool, you could stream virtually anything!

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> John Wiegley <address@hidden> writes:

> As someone else mentioned, lists and streams overlap at the notion of
> sequences -- the main differences being the operational semantics of
> laziness, and the semantics of allowing infinite streams.

> So let's say I've written a function over lists, and I realize I want it to
> act on streams instead. I'd hope that I could just insert "stream-" in
> several places and fulfill that need. If I have to also change over to a
> different set of names for the same effective operations, that would be
> unfortunate.

This got sent before reading your comments on `seq', Nicolas, so please
disregard.

John