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| author | Som Snytt <som.snytt@gmail.com> | 2014-03-28 17:19:16 -0700 |
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| committer | Adriaan Moors <adriaan.moors@typesafe.com> | 2014-03-28 17:40:58 -0700 |
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SI-6069 Preserve by-name during eta-expansion
This wording attempts to describe the behavior change in SI-5610
while remaining non-committal about the mechanism.
It refers to the section on function applications and attempts to
use similar language.
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diff --git a/spec/06-expressions.md b/spec/06-expressions.md index 9a558420dd..89154d4441 100644 --- a/spec/06-expressions.md +++ b/spec/06-expressions.md @@ -1782,6 +1782,10 @@ n$). The result of eta-conversion is then: } ``` +The behavior of [call-by-name parameters](#function-applications) +is preserved under eta-expansion: the corresponding actual argument expression, +a sub-expression of parameterless method type, is not evaluated in the expanded block. + ### Dynamic Member Selection The standard Scala library defines a trait `scala.Dynamic` which defines a member |