DMD 0.166 release
Walter Bright
newshound at digitalmars.com
Thu Aug 31 14:05:06 PDT 2006
Russ Lewis wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Russ Lewis wrote:
>>> Is there any reason to not use "lazy" as a keyword to modify the
>>> expression, rather than the parameter?
>>>
>>> void foo(int delegate() dg) {...}
>>> void bar(int x,int y) {
>>> foo(lazy x+y);
>>> }
>>
>> One reason is lazy arguments and non-lazy arguments cannot be passed
>> to the same function.
>
> One of us is missing something. I'm not sure who :) Can you expand on
> your response here?
foo(x + y);
foo(lazy x + y);
can't work, because foo needs to know which it is. Just like you can't
have the same parameter be both in and out.
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