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In programming language theory, lazy evaluation, or call-by-need, is an evaluation strategy which delays the evaluation of an expression until its value is needed (non-strict evaluation) and which avoids repeated evaluations (by the use of sharing).
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TTTA extracted 109 structured relationships around Lazy evaluation. Examples in this analysis include exception handling → instance of → and another entry is added to the lookup table for reuse.Lazy evaluation is difficult to combine with imperative features and Apache Spark → instance of → though eventually the rapidly growing tree of dependencies would be pruned to produce some symbol rather than another for the outside world to see.Lazy evaluation is fundamental…. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
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| exception handling | instance of | and another entry is added to the lookup table for reuse.Lazy evaluation is difficult to combine with imperative features | 0.80 | text |
| input/output | instance of | and another entry is added to the lookup table for reuse.Lazy evaluation is difficult to combine with imperative features | 0.80 | text |
| because the order of operations becomes indeterminate.The opposite of lazy evaluation is eager evaluation | instance of | and another entry is added to the lookup table for reuse.Lazy evaluation is difficult to combine with imperative features | 0.80 | text |
| sometimes known as strict evaluation | instance of | and another entry is added to the lookup table for reuse.Lazy evaluation is difficult to combine with imperative features | 0.80 | text |
| Apache Spark | instance of | though eventually the rapidly growing tree of dependencies would be pruned to produce some symbol rather than another for the outside world to see.Lazy evaluation is fundamental… | 0.80 | text |
| where computations on distributed datasets are delayed until results are explicitly needed | instance of | though eventually the rapidly growing tree of dependencies would be pruned to produce some symbol rather than another for the outside world to see.Lazy evaluation is fundamental… | 0.80 | text |
| allowing for execution optimizations | instance of | though eventually the rapidly growing tree of dependencies would be pruned to produce some symbol rather than another for the outside world to see.Lazy evaluation is fundamental… | 0.80 | text |
| reduction of unnecessary processing.Control structures.mw-parser-output .ambox | instance of | though eventually the rapidly growing tree of dependencies would be pruned to produce some symbol rather than another for the outside world to see.Lazy evaluation is fundamental… | 0.80 | text |
| Haskell | instance of | Laziness and eagernessControlling eagerness in lazy languagesIn lazy programming languages | 0.80 | text |
| although the default is to evaluate expressions only when they are demanded | instance of | Laziness and eagernessControlling eagerness in lazy languagesIn lazy programming languages | 0.80 | text |
| it is possible in some cases to make code more eager | instance of | Laziness and eagernessControlling eagerness in lazy languagesIn lazy programming languages | 0.80 | text |
| Haskell | instance of | Controlling eagerness in lazy languagesIn lazy programming languages | 0.80 | text |
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Source: Wikipedia — Lazy evaluation · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout