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Incoming links: Lazy feedback stream
Lazy evaluation 2026-10-24
Evaluation delayed until a result is demanded, with sharing of the delayed computation's result. A lazy list can expose a constructor before computing its tail; this permits productive infinite structures and lazy feedback streams. A non-strict language can implement its semantics this way without making every function non-strict.
A scorer applies the same scoring rule, with the fixed secret, independently to each guess:The first score depends only on the first guess, and every later score only on the corresponding guess. Thus this player has no unguarded dependence on its own future output when connected to the guesser by a lazy feedback stream. Neither the dictionary nor a strategy is needed by a truthful scorer once the secret and scoring rule are fixed.
mkScorer :: (secret -> guess -> score)
-> secret -> [guess] -> [score]
mkScorer score secret = map (score secret)The score function takes a proposed secret first and a guess second:Assume that the initial dictionary contains the secret, that scores are truthful, and that
mkGuesser :: Eq score
=> (guess -> guess -> score)
-> ([guess] -> guess)
-> [guess] -> [score] -> [guess]
mkGuesser score strategy dictionary = play dictionary
where
play candidates replies =
let g = strategy candidates
in g : case replies of
[] -> []
r:rs -> play [s | s <- candidates, score s g == r] rsstrategy returns a candidate from its nonempty input. The candidate invariant is exactly the dictionary entries consistent with every score already received. Filtering by score s g == r establishes the same invariant after the next reply and retains the true secret.Crucially, the next guess
g is placed under the outer list constructor before replies is inspected. It depends on earlier replies only; the first guess depends on none. This guarded lazy feedback stream makes the mutually recursive game productive whenever the strategy and scoring operations terminate. Moving the case replies outside the constructor would create a circular demand before the first guess.