On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 04:33:50PM -0700, Dan Weston wrote:
> C++ faced this very issue by saying that with global data, uniqueness of
> initialization is guaranteed but order of evaluation is not. Assuming
> that the global data are merely thunk wrappers over some common data
> source, this means that at minimum, there can be no data dependencies
> between plugins where the order of evaluation matters.
Fortunately, we can do a whole lot better with haskell, the type system
guarentees that order of evaluation is irrelevant :) no need to specify
anything about implementations.
John
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