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Lazy evaluation

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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Lazy evaluation → ACM Computing Surveys, ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN, ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT, Application, Automata Languages, Cambridge University Press, Christopher, Conception, Cons, David, Edinburgh University Press, Evolution, Friedman, Functional Programming Languages, Henderson, Hudak, ISBN, James, John, Lambda Calculus
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Lazy evaluation → Expression, Finally, For, Lazy, LotsOfWork, SafeToTry, Similarly, That, These, True
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Lazy evaluation → Christopher Wadsworth, Daniel, David, For, Friedman, James, Lazy, Morris, Peter Henderson, Wise
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Lazy evaluation → ANSI, Boost Libraries Archived, Evaluation, Lazy, NemerleLambda, Wayback Machine
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Lazy evaluation → Combinatory, Graph, Lambda, May

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exception handlinginstance ofand another entry is added to the lookup table for reuse.Lazy evaluation is difficult to combine with imperative features0.80text
input/outputinstance ofand another entry is added to the lookup table for reuse.Lazy evaluation is difficult to combine with imperative features0.80text
because the order of operations becomes indeterminate.The opposite of lazy evaluation is eager evaluationinstance ofand another entry is added to the lookup table for reuse.Lazy evaluation is difficult to combine with imperative features0.80text
sometimes known as strict evaluationinstance ofand another entry is added to the lookup table for reuse.Lazy evaluation is difficult to combine with imperative features0.80text
Apache Sparkinstance ofthough 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…0.80text
where computations on distributed datasets are delayed until results are explicitly neededinstance ofthough 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…0.80text
allowing for execution optimizationsinstance ofthough 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…0.80text
reduction of unnecessary processing.Control structures.mw-parser-output .amboxinstance ofthough 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…0.80text
Haskellinstance ofLaziness and eagernessControlling eagerness in lazy languagesIn lazy programming languages0.80text
although the default is to evaluate expressions only when they are demandedinstance ofLaziness and eagernessControlling eagerness in lazy languagesIn lazy programming languages0.80text
it is possible in some cases to make code more eagerinstance ofLaziness and eagernessControlling eagerness in lazy languagesIn lazy programming languages0.80text
Haskellinstance ofControlling eagerness in lazy languagesIn lazy programming languages0.80text

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