On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 08:19:06AM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> tomas wrote:
> 
> > Benchmark is a /function/, so its argument is evaluated
> > first. By the Rule of Lisp [1], args are evaluated first...
> 
> Applicative order AKA strict evaluation: a function is
> undefined if any of its arguments are.
> 
> So in practice, that means they are computed first.
> 
> And that makes sense! Since a function f(x, y) is very much
> a function of x and y ...

Lazy evaluation makes sense, too. It's just not how Emacs
Lisp works.

Cheers
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t