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Ian=E6=96=BC 2012=E5=B9=B49=E6=9C=8822=E6=97=A5=E6=98=9F=E6=9C=9F=E5=85=ADU=
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> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Steven D'Aprano
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> <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
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> > On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:49:55 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:
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> >> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:54 PM, 88888 Dihedral
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> >> <dihedral88...@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> >>> I don't think functional aspects are only marked as lazy programming.
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> >> He wrote "lazy evaluation", not "lazy programming".  Two entirely
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> >> different things.
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> > For the record, the consensus here is that 88888 Dihedral is probably a
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> > bot. It appears to be a pretty good bot, I haven't spotted it making an=
y
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> > egregious or obvious grammatical mistakes, but the semantics of its pos=
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> > don't seem quite human.
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> I'm aware of that, although sometimes the posts seem coherent enough
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> that I think maybe it's not.  Especially the ones where it posts
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> almost-working code snippets, complete with obvious typos.
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> Then it posts a complete non sequitur like the reply to my reply in
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> this thread, and the illusion is shattered.

Do you want to use the lisp way for implementing functional programming?

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