What Lazy Evaluation Really Means

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by r4vik • 13 years ago

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morgante• 13 years ago

I was hoping to find out whether I'm actually as lazy as I thought... :(

jpdoctor• 13 years ago

I clicked for the same reason.

Might be worth changing the HN title to be more descriptive. My suggestion: "What Lazy Evaluation Really Means"

Yes I know it undoes the cutsie title, but he's just going to deliver a bunch of bandwidth, get no ad clicks, and waste a bunch of people's time.

mrbbk2• 13 years ago

he's just going to deliver a bunch of bandwidth, get no ad clicks, and waste a bunch of people's time.

Precisely how I would evaluate this comment!

dllthomas• 13 years ago

or maybe "What It Really Means To Be Lazy (evaluation strategy)"

epochwolf• 13 years ago

Let's just go with yes for now. :)

Zaephyr• 13 years ago

Yea, I obviously put too much effort in to investigating this issue.

chaddeshon• 13 years ago

I was excited to read the article, but it was really long. Seemed like it might take a lot of work to read.

mrbbk2• 13 years ago

Not bad, not bad.

antimagic• 13 years ago

I think I might leave it until I need to know what laziness is about then :/

tel• 13 years ago

I really appreciate this thorough book review. I've had CTM for a while but never understood whether it was sufficiently valuable to read. I'm still uncertain, but I understand at a much greater depth what I might learn.

rocky1138• 13 years ago

OT: I love the design and layout of this blog.

Shivetya• 13 years ago

I am not so sure the example provided helps me understand its real use. To me his example resembles something the compiler would handle by filtering out code that is never used. I suppose that the example could be more complete with a conditional use of F3 later on, implying if the condition is not met then C={F3 30} would be skipped.

Appreciate the article, confused me at least which means I will probably look into such ideas more even if in my field I will never use them

What Lazy Evaluation Really Means

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