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From: ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.compilers
Subject: Re: Algol, and language design
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Date: 6 Aug 90 18:51:14 GMT
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Has anybody else noticed that call-by-name makes a certain amount of
sense when you're expanding routine calls in-line?

Think of macros that expand to generated code (or perhaps some
intermediate form thereof), as opposed to more source code.

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