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Re:Total Functional Programming [pdf] by wyager on Thursday October 06, 2016 @02:43PM (#12654945)
>Since you can't actually write a program that takes no arguments that produces an infinite piece of data

Huh?

    inf = Cons 1 inf
Re:Total Functional Programming [pdf] by mkehrt on Thursday October 06, 2016 @06:00PM (#12656491)
Hm, you may be right. I though that was going to violate:

> Each recursive function call must be on a syntactic subcomponent of its formal parameter.

But it doesn't. But you can't actually use that to get a nonterminating program, because you can't recurse over it:

> Ordinary recursion is not legal over codata, because it might not terminate.