Re: [open-axiom-devel] [fricas-devel] Re: functors and categories

2011-11-16 Thread Bill Page
Gaby, I think my disagreement with you about whether List is an "endofunctor" is not very fundamental. Instead it is mostly a matter of terminology. My starting point is the mathematical definition of endofunctor in category theory. But as someone else posted to this list recently: category theo

Re: [open-axiom-devel] [fricas-devel] Re: functors and categories

2011-11-15 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Bill Page writes: | One clarification. Actually despite what Gaby wrote in an earlier | email, I still don't think it is quite correct to claim that a functor | such as List is an endofunctor, at least not in the category-theoretic | sense. Unless, you have a very exotic definition of endofuncto