Quick musing...

[totherme]

We all know and love Lazy Evaluation[1]. Among other things, it allows us to do cool stuff like optimize away benchmarks. It occurred to me today though, that the problem with laziness in life in general is that sometimes you get hit with 12 deadlines at once and wish you'd previously been a bit more eager. So I wonder if anything yet exists which

Comments

[rjw1]

[1] I'd also like to be able to hyperlink to two places at once - perhaps your browser would give you a little context menu when you click on the multi-link or something.

javascript!

[totherme]

lol - true :) It does break the separation between style and content, which my perfect web would observe at all times... And I don't think LJ will let me insert javascript into their pages (will they?) - perhaps I'd best experiment on my own site :)

[michiexile]

But I must say that I generally like the idea of multilinked webpages. We need the web to look more like a multigraph or multicategory than it does now! Definitely!

[totherme]

It might be fun to introduce a new tag (like the LJ ones) for your homepage, and have a pre-parser in the content management system to compile it to javascript, or some other screen-reader friendly, mobile-friendly or lynx-friendly form depending on the options you specify...

Optimistic Evaluation

[anonymous]

You might be interested in "optimistic evaluation". This is an evaluation strategy for non strict languages (e.g. Haskell) that evaluates cheap computations, but stops once it gets too expensive.

Re: Optimistic Evaluation

[anonymous]

See also Eager Haskell.

Re: Optimistic Evaluation

[totherme]

Those are both very cool things - thanks guys :)

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[anonymous]

. Much respect!