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  2. From: nikhil@crl.dec.com (R.S. Nikhil)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
  4. Subject: Re: ** LAZY LANGUAGES FASTER?? **
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul28.140801.21895@crl.dec.com>
  6. Date: 28 Jul 92 14:08:01 GMT
  7. References: <1992Jul24.134857.23289@gdstech.grumman.com> <3737@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> <farrell.712286497@coral.cs.jcu.edu.au>
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  9. Organization: DEC Cambridge Research Lab
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  12. In article <farrell.712286497@coral.cs.jcu.edu.au>, farrell@coral.cs.jcu.edu.au (John Farrell) writes:
  13. > 
  14. >   *Non-strict* evaluation saves time by not evaluating arguments which are not
  15. > needed.
  16.  
  17. Pardon my nit-picking, but this is not true.  I refer you to my earlier posting
  18. (last week?) in which I pointed out that evaluators CAN work on unnecessary
  19. arguments while preserving non-strictness.
  20.  
  21. Rishiyur Nikhil (nikhil@crl.dec.com)
  22.