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evmar on Nov 23, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Basic Patterns for Everyday Programming

The last example also doesn't actually memoize if the result of the computation is false -- it will recompute on each call.

adammacleod on Nov 23, 2011 [–]

It will store a false in the JavaScript version, I'm not familiar with Ruby but I believe you are correct in that case.

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