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Re: Make-rational-number-generator John Cowan 08 Feb 2015 03:40 UTC

Arthur A. Gleckler scripsit:

> This doesn't seem to be useful enough to warrant inclusion in a general
> library.  Do you have some general class of applications in mind?

It's the rational-number analogue of iota.  It's not as intuitive an
ordering as 1, 2, 3, 4, ... and can't be used for indexing, but it
does traverse the whole (non-negative) set of rational numbers.
The particulars of the ordering are nothing special, except that
they require only a single item of state, the last rational number
generated, and there is a once-and-only-once guarantee.

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