From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2005-11-04T16:42:57+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] lazy.rb

MenTaLguY schrieb:
> I've got an 0.0 release of lazy.rb, an implementation of lazy evaluation
> for Ruby, up here:
> 
> http://moonbase.rydia.net/software/lazy/
> 
> It provides two functions: promise (like R5 Scheme's delay) and force
> (just as in Scheme).
> 
> promise takes a block to evaluate later; as an aid to circular
> programming, the block's result is passed to it as a parameter.
> 
> force is used to force the value of a promised computation.
> 
> Some attempts have been made to support implicit forcing through the use
> of SimpleDelegator, but with only mixed success so far.

Hi mental,

do you have some unit tests or an example where implicit forcing isn't 
working as you'd like?

Regards,
Pit