# How do I lift a (potentially infinite) lazy list to a pattern?

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**Category:** TidalCycles\
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**Created:** [28 June 2020 00:49 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/how-do-i-lift-a-potentially-infinite-lazy-list-to-a-pattern/1551 "2020-06-28T00:49:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [28 June 2020 19:42 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/how-do-i-lift-a-potentially-infinite-lazy-list-to-a-pattern/1551/6 "2020-06-28T19:42:18Z")

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I think I've spent some time banging my head against the same wall as you.

Fwiw, you might want to check out this thread on [resetting the cycles count](https://club.tidalcycles.org/t/resetting-cycle-start/546). `resetCycles` is what I used  
The way I see it is that Tidal is really good at lots of things (and in particular, things that no other languages can do), but iterative functions isn't one of them. . . and that's okay.

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