Pascal question
Chris Torek
chris at umcp-cs.UUCP
Thu Apr 25 11:24:17 AEST 1985
Actually, call-by-name is a very interesting method of parameter passing.
How else can you get
proc foo (i, j : integer);
begin i := 10; bar (j) end;
...
foo (x, a[x]);
to work when you haven't initialized x yet? :-)
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