26 Sep
2016
26 Sep
'16
1:05 p.m.
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 10:46:57PM +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Let's talk about lazy evaluation in a broader sense that just function annotations.
If we had syntax for lazy annotation -- let's call them thunks, after Algol's thunks
Er, that should be lazy evaluation. Or at least delayed evaluation.
-- then we could use them in annotations as well as elsewhere. But if we special case annotations only, the Zen has something to say about special cases.
-- Steve