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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