From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2009-11-18T05:04:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Trajectories

On Nov 17, 2009, at 1:54 PM, Aldric Giacomoni wrote:

> James Edward Gray II wrote:
>> On Nov 17, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Aldric Giacomoni wrote:
>> 
>>> Eleanor McHugh wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Yes you can: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_and_promises
>>> 
>>> Looks like there's no gem for this.
>>> Yet.
>> 
>> http://moonbase.rydia.net/software/lazy.rb/
>> 
>> James Edward Gray II
> 
> Well, that'll teach me. How did you find it, out of sheer curiosity? I 
> did not use lazy as a keyword, so maybe that was it..

I've just been reading this list forever and knew it existed.  I had an unfair advantage.  ;)

Lazy evaluation was a popular topic in Ruby circles sometime back.  That was when Lazy.rb was invented.  I looked into it quite a bit while writing this old blog post:

  http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/infinite_streams

James Edward Gray II