On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Eli Barzilay <[email protected]> wrote: > Four hours ago, Alex Shinn wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Eli Barzilay <[email protected]> wrote: >> > 6 hours ago, Alex Shinn wrote: >> >> >> >> (where lazy has been renamed delay-force). >> > >> > `delay-force' would a bad name becuase it's an implementation >> > description. Except that in this case that description is wrong, >> > making "bad name" an understatement. >> >> This is purely subjective. > > The attempted analogy is objectively broken. > > >> There were complaints that 'lazy' was confusing, and put extra >> burden on programmers to remember when to use delay and when to use >> lazy. > > With both present, there is an easy way to remember which one to > choose: `lazy'.
`delay' is useful for many other things besides streams, where `lazy' would not be applicable. -- Alex _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
