call-by-name

English

Alternative forms

• call by name

Noun

call-by-name (uncountable)

1. (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.

   Synonym: pass-by-name

Translations

in programming

• Esperanto: pasigo per algoritmo

See also

• call-by-value
• call-by-reference
• call-by-need
• call-by-future