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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) : [ foldoc ]


  call-by-need
       
           A reduction strategy which delays evaluation of
          function arguments until they are needed because they are
          arguments to a primitive function or a conditional.
          Call-by-need is one part of lazy evaluation.
       
          The term first appears in Chris Wadsworth's thesis "Semantics
          and Pragmatics of the Lambda calculus" (Oxford, 1971, p. 183).
          It was used later, by J. Vuillemin in his thesis (Stanford,
          1973).
       
          (1995-05-27)

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  call-by-need
     alt.
     (lb en programming) An
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/evaluation%20strategy in which the
  arguments to a function are evaluated the first time they are used in
  that function.
     n.
     (lb en programming) An
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/evaluation%20strategy in which the
  arguments to a function are evaluated the first time they are used in
  that function.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  call-by-need
     alt.
     (lb en programming) An
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/evaluation%20strategy in which the
  arguments to a function are evaluated the first time they are used in
  that function.
     n.
     (lb en programming) An
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/evaluation%20strategy in which the
  arguments to a function are evaluated the first time they are used in
  that function.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  call-by-need
     alt.
     (lb en programming) An
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/evaluation%20strategy in which the
  arguments to a function are evaluated the first time they are used in
  that function.
     n.
     (lb en programming) An
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/evaluation%20strategy in which the
  arguments to a function are evaluated the first time they are used in
  that function.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  call-by-need
     alt.
     (lb en programming) An
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/evaluation%20strategy in which the
  arguments to a function are evaluated the first time they are used in
  that function.
     n.
     (lb en programming) An
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/evaluation%20strategy in which the
  arguments to a function are evaluated the first time they are used in
  that function.

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