Re: RFC 122 (v1) types and structures

[John Porter]

Ariel Scolnicov wrote:
> 
> Functional languages that do this are usually lazy 

Yes, that's what I meant.


> That means that when you create
> the structure the `foo' field stores a closure which evaluates to the
> desired value.  If the field is never accessed, the closure is never
> evaluated and no infinite loop results.
> I don't think we want this to happen automatically in Perl.  

I think I agree with you on this.

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John Porter

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