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ID: past-exam-of-the-year-1-of-the-computer-science-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2019/functional-programming-design-and-analysis-of-algorithms/4/a/solution

For proper lazy lists, the generic condition is a finite first list, or an empty second list. A finite first list reaches its terminating constructor, after which list concatenation exposes the second one. An infinite first list never yields control to the second; it therefore cannot deliver occurrences originating there unless there are none. This concerns input occurrences, rather than an accidental overlap of the two inputs' value sets.
A first spine ending in the bottom value also prevents access to the second list. Such inputs require the partial-input qualification in part c; a visible prefix is different from a terminating finite list.

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