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;;; Commentary: ;;; Commentary:
;; ;;
;; Thunk provides functions and macros to control the evaluation of ;; Thunk provides functions and macros to delay the evaluation of
;; forms. Use `thunk-delay' to delay the evaluation of a form, and ;; forms.
;; `thunk-force' to evaluate it. Evaluation is cached, and only ;;
;; happens once. ;; Use `thunk-delay' to delay the evaluation of a form, and
;; `thunk-force' to evaluate it. The result of the evaluation is
;; cached, and only happens once.
;;
;; Here is an example of a form which evaluation is delayed:
;;
;; (setq delayed (thunk-delay (message "this message is delayed")))
;;
;; `delayed' is not evaluated until `thunk-force' is called, like the
;; following:
;;
;; (thunk-force delayed)
;; Tests are located at test/automated/thunk-tests.el ;; Tests are located at test/automated/thunk-tests.el