English Explanatory Dictionary

call-by-name

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An evaluation strategy whereby an argument to a function is evaluated each time its value is used in the function, and is not evaluated at all if its value is never used.

Word forms

call-by-name call by name

Synonyms

pass-by-name

Related words

call-by-value call-by-reference call-by-need call-by-future
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