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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 by
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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.
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