Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

call-by-name

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.24 in modern English

Syllables
cal-l-by--name
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

call by name (alternative)

Phrases

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

Frequently Paired Words

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

Synonyms

pass-by-name

Questions

What does call-by-name mean?
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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