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> http://www.netmeg.net/jargon/terms/t/thunk.html > > seems to support this, as it claims that a thunk is a procedure (that does > accept args) that instead of returning a value will place it in a known > location in memory. Continue reading with meaning 2: "Later generalized into: an expression, frozen together with its environment, for later evaluation if and when needed (similar to what in techspeak is called a `closure'). The process of unfreezing these thunks is called `forcing'." In other words: a procedure that takes no arguments. --Per Bothner Cygnus Solutions bothner@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/~bothner