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6 Sep 2024 21:19:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: More random humous  
From: Warp
Date: 6 Oct 2008 12:26:21
Message: <48ea3c2c@news.povray.org>
Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Let us not forget, of course, that in a "normal" language it's not in 
> any way unusual for changing the structure of a program to cause some 
> new, previously unused code path to suddenly get used and reveal a bug 
> or two that you didn't know about.

  It's just that with lazy evaluation even if you *do* execute all possible
code paths that doesn't guarantee that their result is actually calculated.
Thus code coverage might not have the same degree of guarantee than with
other languages.

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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