Rob Warnock wrote:
Thunks were something used by Algol 60
*compiler writers* in the code generated by their compilers to
implement the semantics of Algol 60 call-by-name, but were not
visible to users at all [except that they allowed call-by-name
to "work right"].

...unless you were a system programmer and had to write Algol-friendly assembler.



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John W. Kennedy
"Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow like That. ...you may come to think a blow bad, because it hurts, and not because it humiliates. You may come to think murder wrong, because it is violent, and not because it is unjust."
  -- G. K. Chesterton.  "The Ball and the Cross"
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