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lazy evaluations

lazy evaluations is the plural of lazy evaluation.

Meaning of lazy evaluation

Noun

lazy evaluation (plural lazy evaluations)

  1. Any of a variety of computing techniques that delay the computation of expressions until (and unless) the results are needed.
    • By default, Haskell uses an execution strategy called lazy evaluation. Under laziness, an expression is never evaluated until it is needed for the evaluation of a larger one.[2014, Alejandro Serrano Mena, Beginning Haskell: A Project-Based Approach, Apress, →ISBN, page 5

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What is lazy evaluations the plural of?
Lazy evaluations is the plural of lazy evaluation.

Words near lazy evaluations in the dictionary

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