OFF-TOPIC: Algol 60 guru required

[Hiisi]

> I don't know if many folks these days are familiar with the "pass by
> name" operation.  Such code these days is generally not implemented 
due
> to the MANY serious issues with security, and most languages don't 
have
> any implementation for it (other than some runtime object language
> approximations using overloading to approximate it), and some list
> processing languages like Clisp.
>
> 	Anyway for the uninitiated, here is a fair explanation of how 
it
> works:
>
> http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~cameron/Teaching/383/PassByName.html
>
> 	I was going to write a C example, but I am just too rusty in
> Algol to
> be sure I coded it correctly.  However, the Thunk method as shown 
using
> PASCAL is one method of implementing pass by value.
>
> Regards,
> Les H
>
I didn't understand initially what "pass by name means". Probably had to 
look more careful at the program.
Doesn't matter any more. I need to do a statement: this thread is closed 
from now. Ones more: thanks everybody for your responses!
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