call-by-name
Noun. (programming) An evaluation strategy in which the arguments to a function are evaluated when the function needs to use them.This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.
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