Submitter's name: Richard Kelsey
Submitter's email: kelsey at s48.org
Relevant draft: r7rs draft 6
Type: clarification
Priority: minor
Relevant section of draft: Derived expression types
Summary: 'lazy' is underspecified
The description of (lazy <expression>) says:
The returned promise, when forced, will evaluate to whatever the original promise would have evaluated to if it had been forced.
This describes what (delay (force <expression>)) does. On the other hand, the description of the stream-filter example says that (lazy <x>) is not the same as (delay (force <x>)). If this is true, the description of lazy needs to say what the difference is.
Editorial change made and formal response sent.