Lazy evaluation alternative
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Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:09:05 +0100
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:18:47 -0600
"Kevin S. Millikin" <kmillikin@atcorp.com> wrote:
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> So your trick *is* used to implement lazy evaluation in other
> languages. It's not very pleasant if you write a lot of lazy code,
> because you have to explicitly suspend evaluation of values using
> delay and explicitly demand evaluation using force.
In ocaml, there is the lazy module, that does exactly the simulation of
lazynes with lambda abstractions.
Vince