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Re: [Scheme-reports] Some comments after reading the r7rs public draft



Emmanuel Medernach scripsit:

> Eventually evaluating a promise in parallel invalidates the whole laziness
> idea: it prevents one to implement infinite streams with finite memory for
> instance.

Excellent point.

-- 
John Cowan   cowan@x  http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Most languages are dramatically underdescribed, and at least one is
dramatically overdescribed.  Still other languages are simultaneously
overdescribed and underdescribed.  Welsh pertains to the third category.
        --Alan King

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