From: Kristof Bastiaensen <kristof@...>
Date: 2004-05-02T18:44:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Lazy evaluation (evil)

On Sun, 02 May 2004 17:18:10 +0900, Jean-Hugues ROBERT wrote:
>>I have to mention callcc was added not because to make Ruby a real
>>functional language, but because we happened to succeed to implement
>>it, and there was no reason to remove.
>>                                                         matz.
> 
> I guess this really deserved to be called "pragmatism" ;-)
> 

This surprises me quite a bit, because I wouldn't think implementing
callcc is an easy thing.  But I am sure it is great way to
attract scheme programmers to Ruby.

"What is this 'Ruby' beast you are talking about?  Oh, it
has call/cc, then I must surely give it a try!"

Kristof