Where is quote (again)?

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Fri Mar 8 12:06:57 EST 2002


Hans Nowak <wurmy at earthlink.net> writes:

> <ponder> It would be interesting to have lazy evaluation though...
> I'm not sure if it's possible to implement, or if it will be
> useful at all. It sure makes sense in functional languages,
> but in Python? Hm. 
> </ponder>

The combination of lazy evaluation and non-functional semantics are
only good for creating confusion.

         functional        non-functional
strict       ml                 python
lazy       haskell               brrr

Cheers,
M.

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