Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!hplabs!sri-unix!quintus!ok From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: call-by-name Message-ID: <813@quintus.UUCP> Date: 6 Dec 88 02:00:11 GMT References: <64961@ti-csl.CSNET> Sender: news@quintus.UUCP Reply-To: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc. Lines: 7 In article <64961@ti-csl.CSNET> gateley@tilde.UUCP (John Gateley) writes: >Call-by-name in the algol-68 language is difficult to use and >understand. In fact call-by-name in Algol 68 is _impossible_ to use; Algol 68 hasn't got it! Algol 68 lets you pass anonymous procedures as parameters instead.