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Re: Some non-obvious Swift goodies

  • Subject: Re: Some non-obvious Swift goodies
  • From: Scott Ribe <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 15:52:52 -0600
On Jun 5, 2014, at 3:00 PM, Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:

> Deferred evaluation does look extremely powerful, but I can imagine it’s also potentially very dangerous if misused, in that it can make the semantics of the calling code very non-obvious.

Yes. Note that the feature comes from functional languages, where it does NOT have the problems you brought up, because the deferred functions do not have side effects.

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