Talin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> A 'promise' on the other hand, doesn't need to be explicitly called to 
> evaluate it. Instead, it automatically evaluates itself whenever it is 
> 'used'. The problem, of course, is that we haven't defined 'used' very 
> well. (I.e. if you pass the unevaluated argument to another function, 
> does it get evaluated or not?)

I'm afraid that this can't be defined well. I haven't yet seen
a consistently behaving transparent proxy in any language.

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