From: Andreas Rossberg <rossberg@mpi-sws.mpg.de>
To: Tom <tom.primozic@gmail.com>
Cc: Caml-list List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Help me find this pdf
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:01:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47173D27.4060504@mpi-sws.mpg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1192703632.7435.34.camel@rosella.wigram>
On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 11:52 +0200, Tom wrote:
> Not long ago I was searching the Internet on the topic "combining
> eager and lazy evaluation", and have run over a paper which I
> obviously dismissed as "not interesting enough", yet now I have
> realized that it could indeed be useful, but am unable to find it.
>
> I know it was talking about a useful primitive, I do not know how
> exactly it was named, which checked whether values passed as arguments
> to functions were lazy (blocks to be evaluated) or eager (already
> evaluated), and using it some functions, e.g. map (this example was
> present in the paper) could be implemented to be both eager and lazy
> at the same time, depending on the arguments.
>
> Does anyone recognize this description?
I guess you mean this one:
http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~sheard/papers/ExplicitLazy.ps
The primitive you're alluding to is called "mimic" in it.
- Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-18 11:02 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 [this message]
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
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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