Martin Gregorie wrote:
Are you sure about that?
I used Algol 60 on an Elliott 503 and the ICL 1900 series back when it was
a current language. The term "thunking" did not appear in either compiler
manual nor in any Algol 60 language definition I've seen. A60 could pass
values by name or value and procedures by name. That was it. Call by name
is what is now referred to as reference passing.
Are you sure about that? ;-)
AFAIK "Call by name" is *not* the same as passing an argument by
reference. With "call by name" you can implement this wonderful thing
called "Jensen's Device", which you cannot do when you pass parameters
by reference!
Josef
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