2 Oct
2003
2 Oct
'03
10:51 a.m.
Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
Also, I'm not convinced that laziness does make users' lives easier -- witness a lot of the traffic on this list. Witness the subject of this thread. In which case the extra difficulty heaped upon compiler writers is of questionable value.
I'm convinced that if laziness (or call by name) were the norm in languages in general, then there would be similar traffic in lists like this one about the problems of strict evaluation -- and there would be a lot more of it, since strictness constrains the programming style a lot more!
Just my two cents.
Likewise, my 50 öre (smallest denomination currently in use :-) -- Thomas