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- Subject: Re: Lazyness abtract (proposal for next Lua version)
- From: Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 16:31:22 -0800
> On Dec 19, 2014, at 9:46 AM, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Oliver Kroth <oliver.kroth@nec-i.de> wrote:
>> what if the called function has a desired side effect?
>
> I think lazy evaluation assumes pure functions - otherwise leads to madness.
>
> Can't help feeling that memoization gets us most of the benefits
> without new syntax/semantics.
>
+1
