In <[email protected]>, on 04/24/2014
at 05:36 PM, Ted MacNEIL <[email protected]> said:
>Early compiler writers used the term for languages that used 'call by
>name' sub-routines (such as FORTRAN) when something like an
>expression was passed.
That's not call by name. Thunks were invented for ALGOL 60, which did
have call by name.
A typical example is an integartion routine where one of the
parameters is the integrand expression. Every time that the subroutine
uses that parameter it re-evaluates the integrand.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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