SMRTR ProgrammingJun 8, 2026Reddit

Poor Man's Time Machine: Lazy Evaluation in JavaScript and Haskell

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Lazy evaluation lets you solve the classic 'replace all elements with the minimum in one pass' puzzle without two separate traversals. In JavaScript, this means wrapping an unevaluated reference in a closure to defer lookup until the minimum is known. Haskell handles this natively via thunks and call-by-need evaluation, making the 'knot-tying' trick cleaner and returning actual values instead of functions.

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