When is lazy evaluation not useful?

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Published on 2009-08-30T17:00:14Z Indexed on 2010/05/19 18:30 UTC
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Delay execution is almost always a boon. But then there are cases when it’s a problem and you resort to “fetch” (in Nhibernate) to eager fetch it.

Do you know practical situations when lazy evaluation can bite you back…?

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