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From: David Teller <David.Teller@univ-orleans.fr>
To: Florian Lorenzen <florian.lorenzen@tu-berlin.de>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Implementation of lazy_t
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:01:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1226336464.6558.15.camel@Blefuscu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <491861D3.8020709@tu-berlin.de>


On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 17:31 +0100, Florian Lorenzen wrote:
> Especially, if
> lazy_t implements call-by-need in the sense that once evaluated
> objects are not evaluated again (by means of sharing) or if it
> implements call-by-name like one can do by inserting 0-ary lambda
> abstractions in the constructor to suspend evaluation and applying
> them to force evaluation?

That's call-by-need indeed. 

Cheers,
 David
-- 
David Teller-Rajchenbach
 Security of Distributed Systems
  http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/Members/David.Teller
 Angry researcher: French Universities need reforms, but the LRU act brings liquidations. 


  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-10 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-10 16:31 Florian Lorenzen
2008-11-10 17:01 ` David Teller [this message]
2008-11-10 17:12 ` [Caml-list] " Mauricio Fernandez
2008-11-11  6:35   ` Andrej Bauer
2008-11-13 10:22   ` Florian Lorenzen

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