thakil comments on No coinductive datatype of integers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thakil 04 May 2011 05:38:48PM 0 points [-]

But the stream isnt an integer. If you tell me I must assign this number to an integer and give me no options to leave then I will be forced to spend the rest of mylife decoding it. Ignoring that we can't give an infinite sequence in the first place I am not sure this is a meaningful problem