On 2008 Aug 2, at 12:57, Larry Wall wrote:
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 05:56:14AM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote:
In S04, "Other similar Code-only forms ..."
What does that mean?
It is feebly attempting to say that, because these are control flow
functions, the argument is really a thunk that the function has
control of when and how it's executed, much like in the constructs:
$x && thunk
$x || thunk
$x ?? thunk !! thunk
Haskell demonstrates that this is simply lazy application.
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