[mercury-users] list functor style functions

[Ralph Becket]

> > 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?
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