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From: Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: thunk.el: Document that thunk-force == funcall?
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 23:21:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pn4a1f2z.fsf@logand.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1kfJO3-00072B-4k@fencepost.gnu.org>

On Wed 18 Nov 2020 at 04:04, "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> wrote:
>    a test predicate usually takes at least one argument
>
> And returns a value -- something which thunks also do not.

that doesn't seem right, thunks can and do return value:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunk

   Thunks are primarily used to delay a calculation until its result is
   needed, or to insert operations at the beginning or end of the other
   subroutine. They have many other applications in compiler code
   generation and modular programming.

   The term originated as a humorous, incorrect, past participle of
   "think". That is, a "thunk value" becomes available after its
   calculation routine is thought through, or executed.[1]



  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-18 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-17 15:17 thunk.el: Document that thunk-force == funcall? Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-17 17:08 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-17 17:38   ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-17 18:09     ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-17 21:07       ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-17 22:42         ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-17 23:52           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-18  8:01             ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-18 14:04               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-18 22:19                 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-18 22:49                   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-18 23:13                     ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-18 23:40                       ` Stephen Leake
2020-11-18  9:04   ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-11-18 22:21     ` Tomas Hlavaty [this message]
2020-11-17 17:32 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-18 23:05   ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-18 23:25     ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-19 11:50       ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-11-19 18:14         ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-19 17:18     ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-19  9:49   ` Nicolas Petton
2020-11-17 21:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-25 14:16   ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-27 17:22     ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-17  4:37       ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-18  2:58         ` Adam Porter

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