[gambit-list] Promises & lazy thunks

Bradley Lucier lucier at math.purdue.edu
Mon Apr 29 16:23:30 EDT 2013


On 04/29/2013 04:13 PM, Marc Feeley wrote:

> Primitives like "cons" and "list" should not force their arguments because they are not strict (i.e. they don't need to know the value of the arguments).
>
> It isn't clear if type predicates are strict or not.  I can see arguments both ways.

OK.  You do force pair? and boolean?; maybe you should force fixnum? and 
flonum?.

Brad



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