Re: (For the Wikipedia article) Algorithms and format
Massimiliano Gubinelli <[email protected]>
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Hi Giovanni > On 30. Nov 2020, at 13:56, Giovanni Piredda <[email protected]> wrote: > >> and also it could be mentioned that there are other interesting systems like >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lout_(software) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lout_(software)><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lout_(software) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lout_(software)>> >> >> which is a lazy functional description language for pages. >> >> > Thanks, I downloaded the system and looked at a few pages of the manual ... now I need to understand why it is a lazy functional description language, but that I have to postpone :-) > evaluation of macro arguments proceed "as needed", for example a macro can produce an infinite list of ".", but the consumer function can decide only to take a finite amount of them (for example to create the .... in a table of contents). In a funcitonal language with strict evaluaiton the infinite list would produce a loop. Similar behaviour in non-lazy languages is obtained via "promises", generators, etc.. Max _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev