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From: Bob Duff <bobduff@theworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Running a preprocessor from GPS?
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 10:02:24 -0400
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EGarrulo <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:

> In this case, a deficiency of Ada is that Ada doesn't allow you to
> evaluate an expression lazily.  Let's imagine that Ada had a `lazy`
> keyword to evaluate an expression lazily.  Then I could have written:
>
>     Trace (Me, lazy "Performing Step " & Step(...));
>
> without any need for a preprocessor.

That's "lambda".  It is indeed a good idea.

- Bob