On 2020-12-16, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 20:08:53 +0000 (UTC), Mark Polesky via Python-list ><python-list@python.org> declaimed the following: > >>behavior, and I can't remember any programming language in which it's >>different. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_strategy#Call_by_name
Most of us only run across call-by-name when using macro processors (cpp, m4, TeX, various assemblers). I vaguely recall some other old language I ran across in a survey course when in college that used it. IIRC it was Algol. Somebody else already mentioned Haskel. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list