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The embedding is a right fold interpreting each source constructor by its new counterpart:

list' :: [a] -> List a
list' = foldr cons' nil'

Induction on the finite source list proves that querying index

i

returns its

i

th element exactly when

i

lies in range. The empty case is nil'; the cons case shifts every tail index as established in part (b). This is the only part of Question 4 whose implementation uses the conventional list type.

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