On 2011-05-05, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
>> Is transmission by name the same as call by object?
>
> No, it's not. With call-by-name, the caller passes a
> small function (known as a "thunk") that calculates the
> address of the parameter. Every time the callee needs to
> refer to the parameter, it evaluates this function.
>
> This allows some neat tricks, but it's massive overkill for most
> uses.
It also is a very good source of surprising bugs.
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