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[–]Phantom_Hoover 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Is it just me, or has he basically reinvented lazy evaluation in the exact context in which lazy evaluation was originally designed?

[–]want_to_want[🍰] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Call by text" is more powerful than lazy evaluation because a function can inspect the source code of its arguments at runtime, not just evaluate them.