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>No. You're thinking imperatively. The pure form would express something like: >given the property sorted(s) defined in this way "Prompt SET" >let s be a
by giberson 15y ago
>No. You're thinking imperatively. The pure form would express something like:
>given the property sorted(s) defined in this way
"Prompt SET"
>let s be a set such that for all elements e of s, e is an element of the program input. ... such that sorted(l) is true.
"SORT SET"
>Then let the output of the program be the list l
Display SET.
You've changed the wording and grammar, but you haven't stated anything different.
- aphyr 15y agoWhat I'm pointing out is that "steps" are arbitrary; they're not intrinsic properties of the system. You can express the entire program as a definition tree without ordered expressions.