Stream: beginners

Topic: Function with no arguments

Shawn (Feb 01 2024 at 05:49):

This feels like a really silly question, but how do you define a function with no arguments?

Brendan Hansknecht (Feb 01 2024 at 06:04):

So in roc, there is no such thing. That would just be a constants. That said, if you want lazy evaluation, the standard is to make a function that takes an empty record as the argument:

lazySlowCompute = \{} -> ...

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