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amszmidt 27 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp

(No need for LET*, just LET would suffice.)

tmtvl 27 days ago [–]

LET* may be needed if the operations are time-dependent (so if the move-to operation must happen before the delay operation), as LET does the binding in parallel (at least, according to the spec).

amszmidt 27 days ago | [–]

That is a very acute observation!

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