Usually means: Parameter evaluation at each usage.
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General (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. call-by-name: Wiktionary
  2. call-by-name: Dictionary.com
  3. Call-by-name, Call by name: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. call by name: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. call-by-name: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. call-by-name, call by name: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Call by name)

noun:  Alternative form of call-by-name [(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.]


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