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From: "Nicolas Cannasse" <warplayer@free.fr>
To: "Richard Jones" <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: "caml-list" <caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] laziness
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 10:37:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <001801c494b5$e25a59e0$ef01a8c0@warp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040907083114.GA14461@annexia.org>

> The example was given of:
>
>  let x = ... in let y = ... in x
>
> Under lazy evaluation, "y" is never evaluated, but it's still dead code.

let x = f() in

might trigger some mutations or IO, it can't be safely considered dead code
in an impure functional language such as OCaml.

Nicolas Cannasse

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-07  8:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-05  1:07 Jason Smith
2004-09-05  5:46 ` skaller
2004-09-06  0:57 ` Richard Jones
2004-09-06  6:11   ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-09-06  8:24   ` skaller
2004-09-06  8:44   ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2004-09-06 12:55   ` Jon Harrop
2004-09-06 16:21     ` William Lovas
2004-09-06 22:35   ` Hartmann Schaffer
2004-09-07  8:31     ` Richard Jones
2004-09-07  8:37       ` Nicolas Cannasse [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-06 12:17 Jason Smith
2004-09-06 17:00 ` skaller
2004-09-06  9:16 Jason Smith
2004-09-06  9:07 Jason Smith
2004-09-06 10:18 ` skaller
2004-09-04  6:30 skaller
2004-09-04  8:40 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-04 11:21   ` skaller
2004-09-04 11:49     ` Richard Jones
2004-09-04 20:40     ` Hartmann Schaffer
2004-09-05 10:50 ` Jon Harrop
2004-09-05 14:07   ` skaller

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