[Haskell-cafe] Functions are first class values in C

[Jeremy Apthorp]

On 23/12/2007, Peter Verswyvelen <bf3 at telenet.be> wrote:
> Cristian Baboi wrote
> > Lazy constant in C:
> > int C1 (){ return 7; }
>
> Not really, this is not lazy, since it always recomputes the value "7".

Actually GCC will happily optimise this away in almost all cases.

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- Jeremy Apthorp