On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 12:40:37AM -0800, David Brown wrote: > If your code is pure (the arguments have no side effects) if can evaluate > all arguments, but even that loses in efficiency. With side effects, it > can't evaluate them.
Well put. > Technically, the language doesn't need integers either, since those can be > implemented with lists of various lengths :-) Paul Graham talks about this while imagining a language 100 years in the future when space and time constraints are much looser. :) cs -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
