Re: Thunk routines

scott@basis.com (Scott Amspoker)
3 Mar 1998 10:50:21 -0500

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From: scott@basis.com (Scott Amspoker)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 3 Mar 1998 10:50:21 -0500
Organization: Basis International
References: 98-02-103
Keywords: history

DAVEJ3 <DAVEJ3@Prodigy.Net> wrote:


>Does anybody know where the routine name Thunk came from?
>[It was coined about 1960 to describe the callback routines needed to
>implement call-by-name, shortly after the Algol60 committee realized
>they'd invented call-by-name by mistake. -John]


Thank you for the reality check on "thunk". For ages I always thought that's
what it was (used to implement call-by-name) but it seems that the usage has
changed in recent years - refering to a glue layer between incompatible
modules. I figured I remembered incorrectly.


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