Matthew Flatt picked “shrubbery” because it’s tree-like but not fully expanded, so it tends to be more broad/flat than deep like a tree. Hence also the term “enforrestation” when you fully expanded it.
I think the Monty Python reference is just a happy coincidence.
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What with the term itself, is that some monthy python reference or related to tree algebraic structure?
Matthew Flatt picked “shrubbery” because it’s tree-like but not fully expanded, so it tends to be more broad/flat than deep like a tree. Hence also the term “enforrestation” when you fully expanded it.
I think the Monty Python reference is just a happy coincidence.
Nice to get so much insightful feedbacks. That's the kind of exchange that make HN still sometime interesting.
The knights who say Ni demand a shrubbery.
More like the Knights who say Nil