Delayed evaluation of expressions

[Rustom Mody]

On Thursday, March 27, 2014 4:15:19 AM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Chris Angelico :

> > You prove here that Python has first-class expressions in the same way
> > that 80x86 assembly language has garbage collection. Sure, you can
> > implement it using the primitives you have, but that's not support.

> I was more reminded of STL and Boost. For example:

>    std::for_each(v.begin(), v.end(),
>      ( 
>        switch_statement(
>          _1,
>          case_statement<0>(std::cout << constant("zero")),
>          case_statement<1>(std::cout << constant("one")),
>          default_statement(cout << constant("other: ") << _1)
>        ), 
>        cout << constant("\n") 
>      )
>    );

> (<URL: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/doc/html/lambda/
> le_in_details.html#lambda.switch_statement>)

I must admit I have a hard time reading C++!

However that link seems to be saying more or less what I am -- viz. lambda
is a delay operator