dict.get(key, default) evaluates default even if key exists

[Greg Ewing]

On 17/12/20 8:31 am, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2020-12-16, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_strategy#Call_by_name
> 
> I vaguely recall some other old
> language I ran across in a survey course when in college that used it.
> IIRC it was Algol.

Algol 60.

Also, Lisp macros effectively let you do something similar.

-- 
Greg