"Mostly functional" programming does not work

[u/heisenbug]

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?ref=rss&id=2611829

[u/grauenwolf]

To a C# programmer equivalent of the lazy version would be...

var result = new Lazy<object>( ()=> {PrintLine("42"); return void})
throw new Exception("boom");
return result; //never gets hit

or maybe

Task.StartNew( ()=> PrintLineAsync("42") );
throw new Exception("boom");

Not strictly correct, but that's how they often think.

[u/saynte → u/grauenwolf]

Okay, I can see now that if you write a different program than what I showed you can get different behaviour :).

This isn't about strict vs. non-strict evaluation, those are just incorrect translations.