[R] Inf and lazy evaluation

Stefan Evert stefanML at collocations.de
Tue May 15 12:30:07 CEST 2012


> Oh, what is this world coming to when you can't count on laziness to
> be lazy. ;)  I should probably stop reading about Haskell and their
> lazy way of doing things.

Haskell would still have to check  an infinite number of potential files on your hard disk, because it can't now when it's seen everything that fits the naming pattern, now wouldn't it?

Just saying ...
Stefan



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