 Stream productivity (source code)

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= Stream productivity

= Productivity
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A stream computation is productive when every demanded finite prefix of its output can be produced in finite work. Filtering an infinite <list> need not be productive: asking for odd elements of `[0,2..]` never produces even an empty-list constructor. <Lazy evaluation> alone does not prove productivity.

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