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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: and then... (a curiosity)
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:21:40 +0200
Date: 2008-08-30T13:21:45+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1tlnjekp3wf5g$.19r86nar256t2.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 09fad49e-95d9-4ffc-a0bd-d68d14a0f901@b2g2000prf.googlegroups.com

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:28:16 -0700 (PDT), Adam Beneschan wrote:

> "and then" is not a function, however, and has none of these
> properties.

It could be made a function if Ada had lazy arguments.

I am unsure if the arguments of "and" are eager. You are a language lawyer,
I am not. But I used to think that the eagerness of evaluation is rather
unspecified, so that the compiler is free "not to care," when it optimizes
the code, as Jeff Carter has pointed out.

So basically, provided the above is correct, the choice was motivated by
least strong precondition (=unspecified eagerness), rather than by choosing
between eager and lazy evaluation.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-30 11:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-29 21:06 and then... (a curiosity) mockturtle
2008-08-29 21:47 ` Samuel Tardieu
2008-08-30 21:28   ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-08-31  8:28     ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-08-31 23:21       ` Ray Blaak
2008-09-01  8:05     ` Martin Krischik
2008-09-01 17:56       ` Ray Blaak
2008-09-02  6:53         ` Martin Krischik
2008-09-02 14:56           ` Adam Beneschan
2008-09-02 16:28             ` Ray Blaak
2008-09-02 16:26           ` Ray Blaak
2008-09-02 20:50             ` Robert A Duff
2008-09-03 12:35               ` Brian Drummond
2008-09-03 15:56                 ` Robert A Duff
2008-09-04 22:09                   ` Brian Drummond
2008-09-03 21:01               ` Vinzent Hoefler
2008-09-02 14:50     ` Adam Beneschan
2008-08-29 22:28 ` Adam Beneschan
2008-08-30  1:06   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-08-30 11:21   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2008-08-30 15:35     ` Peter C. Chapin
2008-09-02 15:06       ` Adam Beneschan
2008-09-02  3:41 ` Steve
2008-09-02  7:48   ` stefan-lucks
2008-09-02  8:57     ` Martin Krischik
2008-09-02 10:50       ` stefan-lucks
2008-09-02 10:33         ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-09-02 13:32           ` stefan-lucks
2008-09-02 12:53             ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-09-02 17:32               ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-09-03 13:14               ` stefan-lucks
2008-09-03 12:44                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-09-02 13:39             ` stefan-lucks
2008-09-02 13:40             ` stefan-lucks
2008-09-02 16:48             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-09-02 17:00             ` Keith Thompson
2008-09-02 19:15               ` Simon Wright
2008-09-02 20:37               ` Robert A Duff
2008-09-02 20:58                 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-09-02 21:08                   ` Robert A Duff
2008-09-03 12:24                     ` Pascal Obry
2008-09-02 22:34                   ` Santiago Urueña
2008-09-03  5:56                     ` Robert A Duff
2008-09-03  6:55                       ` Santiago Urueña
2008-09-03 14:14                       ` Adam Beneschan
2008-09-03  0:11                 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-09-02 17:20             ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-09-04  1:05         ` Stephen Leake
2008-09-04  6:45           ` stefan-lucks
2008-09-04  7:35             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-09-04 12:04               ` stefan-lucks
2008-09-04 13:00                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-09-04 19:05                   ` stefan-lucks
2008-09-04 20:28                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-09-05  6:57                       ` stefan-lucks
2008-09-05  6:34                         ` Ray Blaak
2008-09-05 14:14                     ` Robert A Duff
2008-09-05 15:04                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-09-07 16:45                         ` stefan-lucks
2008-09-05 15:14                       ` Hyman Rosen
2008-09-05 15:59                         ` Adam Beneschan
2008-09-05 16:10                           ` Hyman Rosen
2008-09-07 16:36                       ` stefan-lucks
2008-09-07 16:08                         ` Gautier
2008-09-04  7:39             ` Karel Th�nissen
2008-09-04 12:12               ` stefan-lucks
2008-09-04 15:13                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-09-04 15:16                 ` Karel Th�nissen
2008-09-04 15:42                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-09-04 19:27                   ` stefan-lucks
2008-09-04 19:43                     ` stefan-lucks
2008-09-04 19:40                       ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-09-05  7:00                         ` stefan-lucks
2008-09-05  6:35                           ` Ray Blaak
2008-09-04 20:06                       ` Karel Th�nissen
2008-09-05  7:44                         ` stefan-lucks
2008-09-05  6:41                           ` Vinzent Hoefler
2008-09-04 20:09                     ` Karel Th�nissen
2008-09-05  7:25                       ` stefan-lucks
2008-09-05  6:37                         ` Ray Blaak
2008-09-05  8:20                           ` stefan-lucks
2008-09-05 13:57                         ` Robert A Duff
2008-09-04 16:33                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-09-04 19:31                   ` stefan-lucks
2008-09-04 19:59                     ` Karel Th�nissen
2008-09-05  7:27                       ` stefan-lucks
2008-09-05  8:38                         ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-09-04 20:17                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-09-05 13:26                 ` Robert A Duff
2008-09-05 13:49                   ` Robert A Duff
2008-09-03  1:24     ` Stephen Leake
2008-09-03  3:31       ` tmoran
2008-09-03 13:22       ` stefan-lucks
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