[Shootout-list] Rule 30

Jon Harrop jon@ffconsultancy.com
Fri, 20 May 2005 00:46:52 +0100


On Friday 20 May 2005 00:30, Isaac Gouy wrote:
> --- Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
> > Some implementations may precompute it without the reader's
> > knowledge. More worryingly, some language implementations may
> > precompute it without the author's knowledge.
>
> Which do?

We don't know which do. That's the point. Haskell implementations are most 
likely to do this.

It would be better to design the tests such that the implementations can't 
precompute the result.

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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
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