From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/169 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Stacey Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Functions in programming Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:12:43 +0100 Message-ID: Reply-To: Andrew Stacey NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237249446 12646 80.91.229.12 (17 Mar 2009 00:24:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:24:06 +0000 (UTC) To: Categories Mailing List Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Tue Mar 17 01:25:23 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mailserv.mta.ca ([138.73.1.1]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LjN7T-0007sq-1V for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:25:23 +0100 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1LjMYp-0001xZ-G3 for categories-list@mta.ca; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:49:35 -0300 Content-Disposition: inline Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:169 Archived-At: Wow! Thanks for _all_ the replies. I certainly learnt a lot very quickly just then. The students seemed to get the basic idea - assuming that I didn't mangle it. One or two seemed to know a bit of category theory and so were able to see a bit further than the others. So thanks again. Particularly, I'm very pleased that I was able to have an answer for the next class. I guess that the time zone helped there but even so it was great to have so many answers so fast. Andrew