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And once you understand that lists can be nested things become really interesting
by c1sc0 17y ago
And once you understand that lists can be nested things become really interesting
- xinsight 17y agoEven with nested lists, I'm still not clear why this is such a powerful concept. How do lists help us to think?
- nazgulnarsil 17y agobefore you have a solid ontological understanding of a concept, lacking powerful descriptive axioms we're forced to rely on a list of characteristics e.g. intrinsic properties, how it interacts with other objects, etc. if we restrict ourselves to things we already have a vigorous understanding of how will we consider new hypothesis? I'm not sure if this is coming through right.
- phr 17y agoReminds me of interfaces in Google Go. No rigid class hierarchy to cram our objects into. Just implement a list of methods and you're good.
- anigbrowl 17y agoby establishing the concept of scope and discriminatory criteria for inclusion or exclusion. Look up 'bongard problems' and appreciate that while some are based around topological or temporal progression, others require cataloging random arrangements and establishing membership criteria.
- DannoHung 17y agoThings get more interestinger once you realize that it's all just degenerative cases of bidirectional cyclic graphs.
- gloob 17y agoThe tough part is finding a tidy syntax for representing said bidirectional cyclic graphs. A programming language with support for arbitrary graph literals would make me happy.
- 10ren 17y agohttps://developer.mozilla.org/en/Sharp_variables_in_JavaScript https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Sharp_variables_in_JavaScri...
- tayssir 17y agoIf I understand correctly, that's just like Common Lisp's way to specify cyclic references. http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/02_dhp.htm http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/02_dhp...
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