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Twisol on Dec 11, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Monads and GATs in Nightly Rust

"BFD" here means "big f#$%ing deal", not "b??? factorization domain".

tome on Dec 12, 2020 [–]

"Bounded Factorization Domain" apparently

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_domain#Special_cases

This is a pretty hilarious misinterpretation

> "Lambda calculus is a bounded factorization domain in the subfield of programming languages. What's the problem?"

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