(j3.2006) Fw: a question on MERGE and expression evaluation

[Aleksandar Donev]

On 11/19/10 11:11, Bill Long wrote:
> Requiring lazy evaluation would make MERGE essentially useless in that 
> context.
Agreed that lazy evaluation is not necessarily the right thing, and any 
such thing should go into a new intrinsic. Not that we will *ever* agree 
on one.
Aleks

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