Re: Algol, and language design

ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Mon, 06 Aug 90 18:51:14 GMT

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From: ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
References: <25630@cs.yale.edu> <58091@lanl.gov> <1990Jul26.024449.1777@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 90 18:51:14 GMT

Has anybody else noticed that call-by-name makes a certain amount of
sense when you're expanding routine calls in-line?


Think of macros that expand to generated code (or perhaps some
intermediate form thereof), as opposed to more source code.


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