[mercury-users] list functor style functions

[David Overton]

On Mon, 15 Nov, 1999 at 10:06:13PM EST, Ralph Becket wrote:
> > > Actually, the way I've implemented it, using 
> > extras/lazy_evaluation/lazy.m, 
> > > you _can_ backtrack over the deconstruction function, due to the
> > > operational semantics of force/1 which will cause the closure to
> > > be evaluated only once.
> > 
> > Cool!  But does this mean the entire content of the file will be
> > buffered in memory, even if the code is deterministic?  I don't think
> > that would be an acceptable overhead.
> 
> I would have thought that garbage collection would work as usual?

Yes, it should.

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David Overton       Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering
PhD Student         The University of Melbourne, Australia
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