call-by-name

noun

Definitions

  1. An evaluation strategy whereby an argument to a function is evaluated each time its value…

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for call-by-name. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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