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Re: what does 'thunk' mean?


Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> writes:

> Anyone here know it better?

I don't claim to sit on the absolute truth in this matter, but I think
the common definition is a procedure which takes zero arguments.
(Clearly, you can use such thunks to delay evaluation.)

In any case, Guile uses this definition and has the ambition to use it
throughout the code.

/mdj