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Almost surely the author of TFA meant "dynamic", not lazy. Nobody uses "lazy" in the sense of TFA.
by the_af 3y ago
Almost surely the author of TFA meant "dynamic", not lazy.
Nobody uses "lazy" in the sense of TFA.
- anonzzzies 3y agoThe article meant Dynamic instead of Lazy? Ah.. Well, that's terrible use of words that mean something then.
- the_af 3y agoYes and yes. It doesn't bode well for a bit of criticism when it starts by grossly misusing a technical term.
- asplake 3y agoIt’s just plain wrong. The Wikipedia link points to “lazy” in the Haskell sense. Python is not that.
- the_af 3y agoAgreed. It's so evidently wrong my guess is that the author thinks "lazy" means "dynamic", searched Wikipedia and pasted a link to the article without reading it (in which case he would have found it didn't match his understanding). It's the less insane explanation. The alternative, that the author read and understood what lazy evaluation is, but somehow still thinks Python does it this way, is too crazy to consider.