24 Dec
2006
24 Dec
'06
1:55 p.m.
Joachim Durchholz wrote:
To adhere to uniformity, strong abstraction, and the Principle of Least Surprise, we thus chose to force lazy futures in Alice ML.
Well, I wouldn't have expected that pickling has an effect (other than wrapping the value up for transfer), so at least I would have been greatly surprised.
That "effect" is just strictness. Since you generally cannot pickle a future (and usually wouldn't want to), pickling naturally has to be strict. Making lazy futures a special case, in this one single strict operation, would be surprising (and extremely ad-hoc). - Andreas