On Saturday, 27 December 2014 at 12:32:32 UTC, Nick Treleaven
wrote:
On 24/12/2014 06:18, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad"
<[email protected]>" wrote:
"lazy" was implemented in Algol and then shunned in just about
all
languages that followed.
FWIW Apple's recent Swift has @autoclosure, which is the same
as lazy. It's needed to implement assert in Swift.
Yes...
«As with macros in C, auto-closures are a very powerful feature
that must be used carefully because there is no indication on the
caller side that argument evaluation is affected.»
https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=4
