> I currently have a gut feeling that many of the use cases could be satisfied by a simple function such as > > generate-sequence($initial-state, $step) > > returning a sequence of states, where $step is a function that computes the next state from the current state. This reminds me a lot of the proposal made by Reece two years ago [1]. Several interesting questions had been asked in this thread, for example if "count(generate-sequence(...))" would work, or, more generally, if the function would introduce a new value type that has no fixed size. [1] https://github.com/qt4cg/qtspecs/issues/708
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