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		dschobel on Feb 12, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: π in Clojure Couldn't Clojure also do lazy evaluation to get the same optimization?

ramchip on Feb 13, 2010 [–]

I'm not sure, but I think Clojure would fully evaluate all terms until it gets the one you request. Clojure has lazy sequences, but it doesn't turn everything into thunks like Haskell.

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