On 9/25/10 3:43 PM, Jan-Willem Maessen wrote:
No one seems to have mentioned that this is a non-optimization in
call-by-need lambda-calculus (Ariola et al.), where it follows from
the standard reduction rules.
Exactly. Then again, call-by-need gives a form of partial evaluation,
which was what I was pointing out in in the post described as:
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:10 AM, David Sankel<cam...@gmail.com> wrote:
wren ng thornton provided an evaluation using another operational semantics
(reference?). Under this semantics, this optimization would be called
partial evaluation. Unfortunately I couldn't follow the steps or the
reasoning behind them, perhaps a reference to the semantics would help.
--
Live well,
~wren
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