From: Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla <dido@...>
Date: 2002-08-29T01:27:07+09:00
Subject: Re: What New Language After Ruby?

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 10:23:40PM +0900, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:58:31 +0900, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla <dido@imperium.ph> pisze:
> > That sounds like ugly business: in a lazy language not all side
> > effects may wind up getting evaluated and things just get confusing.
> 
> Side effects are "separate" from laziness. Laziness doesn't affect what
> side effects are effective and in what order.

Really?  I thought that the definition of a lazy language was that when
a function is evaluated, the arguments are only evaluated when they are
needed.  So if an argument has a side effect, that side effect might
never happen if the argument was not used.  Well, unless strictness
analysis is performed...

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