[racket] Lazy take is the identity?

From: Casey Klein (clklein at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 26 07:29:42 EST 2011

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:27 AM, John Clements
<clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
> I would expect this program to signal an error:
>
> #lang lazy
>
> (define zeros (cons 0 zeros))
>
> (define should-be-error (list-ref (take 15 zeros) 1324))
>
>
> ... but instead should-be-error is bound to zero.  How can I take the 1000th element of a list with only 15 elements?  I'm tempted to make snide comments about laziness, but I'm sure it'll backfire when it turns out that somehow that's the right answer after all.
>
> Bug report?
>

Sure enough:

http://bugs.racket-lang.org/query/?cmd=view&pr=11458


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