lazy evaluation

noun

Definitions

  1. Any of a variety of computing techniques that delay the computation of expressions until…

    Any of a variety of computing techniques that delay the computation of expressions until (and unless) the results are needed.

    • By default, Haskell uses an execution strategy called lazy evaluation. Under laziness, an expression is never evaluated until it is needed for the evaluation of a larger one.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lazy evaluation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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