call-by-name (English, noun)
expansion: call-by-name (uncountable)
Senses:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: 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.
tags: uncountable
Forms:
form: call by name
tags: alternative