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(programming) 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.

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pass-by-name

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call-by-needcall-by-valuecall-by-referencecall by valuecall by referencepass-by-valuepass-by-referencepass by referencecall-by-futurecall by sharingpass by valuenamed parameterlazy evaluationjensen's devicepartial evaluationfunctional programmingvariable bindinginterningdynamic bindingtail call

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