Re: [Scheme-reports] Some comments after reading the r7rs public draft John Cowan (07 Jun 2012 20:23 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] Some comments after reading the r7rs public draft John Cowan 07 Jun 2012 20:23 UTC

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.

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