DIP66 has been approved contingent to a few amendments as noted

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On Saturday, 27 December 2014 at 15:13:07 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On 2014-12-27 13:32, Nick Treleaven wrote:
>
>> FWIW Apple's recent Swift has @autoclosure, which is the same 
>> as lazy.
>> It's needed to implement assert in Swift.
>
> Doesn't Scala have something similar.

Yes, both Simula and Scala provide call-by-name.