Re:Relic: Functional relational programming for Clojure(Script)
by eyelidlessness on Monday February 27, 2023 @12:21AM
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I don’t remember whether it was Rod or Todd, but “unflavored [iced milk] for me!” was in fact a Simpsons gag.
> Of course, many of these paradigms are useless in practice, such as the empty paradigm (no concepts)[1] or paradigms with only one concept.
> [1]: Similar reasoning explains why Baskin-Robbins has exactly 31 flavors of ice cream. We postulate that they have only 5 flavors, which gives 2^5 − 1 = 31 combinations with at least one flavor. The 32nd combination is the empty flavor. The taste of the empty flavor is an open research question.