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What Lazy Evaluation Really Means
- mrbbk 13y agoPart of a series: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mrbbk https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mrbbk
- morgante 13y agoI was hoping to find out whether I'm actually as lazy as I thought... :(
- jpdoctor 13y agoI 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.
- mrbbk 13y 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!
- jamesbritt 13y agoI'm not sure if you're being self-referential or not.
- foobarbazqux 13y agoIf you need to know that for this particular argument, I guess you'll have to wait for him to return. I can't make promises on his behalf though.
- jamesbritt 13y agoI'll have to leave a callback then.
- dllthomas 13y agoor maybe "What It Really Means To Be Lazy (evaluation strategy)"
- epochwolf 13y agoLet's just go with yes for now. :)
- Zaephyr 13y agoYea, I obviously put too much effort in to investigating this issue.
- chaddeshon 13y agoI was excited to read the article, but it was really long. Seemed like it might take a lot of work to read.
- tel 13y agoI 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 13y agoOT: I love the design and layout of this blog.
- Shivetya 13y agoI 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