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From: Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Help me find this pdf
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:04:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071018150408.GA3046@stratocaster.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47177326.6060202@fischerventure.com>

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:52:22AM -0500, Robert Fischer wrote:
>> You have to explicitly force the lazy value first- but other than it being 
>> explicit, this is no different from other languages that implicitly force 
>> the value for you.  Well, Haskell has an option where a pattern match can 
>> always succeed that doesn't necessarily force the lazy value (I forget 
>> what it's called at the moment), but baring that, even standard Haskell 
>> pattern matching forces the value for the match.
> ...which is pretty much how it is going to have to work until someone 
> builds a programming language with psychic precognition.

Whose reference manual would have to be called
    The Minority Report on the Programming Language Foo :-)

-- 
Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u


  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-18 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-18  9:52 Tom
2007-10-18 10:33 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-10-18 11:01   ` Andreas Rossberg
2007-10-18 12:25 ` Jon Harrop
2007-10-18 12:40   ` Arnaud Spiwack
2007-10-18 13:17     ` Jon Harrop
2007-10-18 15:15       ` Till Varoquaux
2007-10-18 12:46   ` Jacques Garrigue
2007-10-18 13:57     ` Jon Harrop
2007-10-18 14:22       ` Brian Hurt
2007-10-18 14:52         ` Robert Fischer
2007-10-18 15:04           ` Eric Cooper [this message]
2007-10-18 17:18         ` Jon Harrop
2007-10-19  1:16           ` skaller
2007-10-19  5:09           ` Bárður Árantsson
2007-10-19  5:23             ` [Caml-list] " Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-10-19  5:46               ` Bárður Árantsson
2007-10-19 12:25               ` [Caml-list] " Christophe Raffalli
2007-10-19 12:47                 ` Luc Maranget
2007-10-20 14:26                   ` Christophe Raffalli
2007-10-19 14:48                 ` Robert Fischer
2007-10-19 21:43                   ` Andreas Rossberg
2007-10-19 21:51                     ` Robert Fischer
2007-10-20 13:10                       ` Andreas Rossberg
2007-10-19 23:10                     ` Jon Harrop
2007-10-20  1:13                       ` skaller
2007-10-20  6:36                         ` Tom
2007-10-21 11:17                           ` skaller
2007-10-19  8:55             ` Zheng Li
2007-10-19 22:27             ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-10-19 13:00           ` [Caml-list] " Brian Hurt
2007-10-19 13:49             ` Loup Vaillant
2007-10-19 14:41               ` Zheng Li
2007-10-19 23:09             ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-10-18 20:07   ` Tom
2007-10-19  0:59     ` skaller
2007-10-18 20:48 ` Lauri Alanko

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