Lazy evaluation alternative

Martin Norbäck d95mback@dtek.chalmers.se
24 Jan 2003 14:41:38 +0100


fre 2003-01-24 klockan 13.21 skrev Chris Clearwater:
>     I wonder if I could run an idea I've had by this list. It seems to
> me you could get some of the desired effects of lazy evaluation by using
> continuation passing style in code. For example, take this psuedo-code
> using CPS to represent an infinite data type.

Yes, you can simulate lazy evaluation. But the point is that we don't
want to simulate it, we want it built-in into the language, for
optimization purposes.

Regards,

	Martin

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