[Python-ideas] One more time... lambda function <--- from *** signature def.

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Mar 6 06:30:21 CET 2014


Masklinn wrote:
> On 2014-03-05, at 22:51 , Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

>>Also, Haskell has the advantage of knowing that the value
>>won't change
> 
> I do not see why that would be relevant to thunks. The result of the
> thunk may be mutable, so what?

That's not what I mean. The value of the thunk can
depend on other things that change. In general you
can't get away with evaluating it once and caching
the result.

-- 
Greg




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