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lazyevaluation1 CONSTRUCTLazy evaluationHENDERSON · PROGRAMMING

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an evaluation strategy that delays computing an expression until its value is needed and then stores the result so it is computed at most once.

In programming languages, lazy evaluation refers to an evaluation strategy that delays computing an expression until its value is needed and then stores the result so it is computed at most once. This meaning comes from Henderson (1976) in Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN symposium on Principles on programming languages - POPL '76.[1]

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  1. Henderson, P., & Morris, J. H. (1976). A lazy evaluator. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN symposium on Principles on programming languages - POPL '76. https://doi.org/10.1145/800168.811543

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