call-by-need

noun

Definitions

  1. An evaluation strategy in which the arguments to a function are evaluated the first time…

    An evaluation strategy in which the arguments to a function are evaluated the first time they are used in that function.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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