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CALL-BY-NEED

Specialty Definition: CALL-BY-NEED

Domain	Definition
Computing	Call-by-need A reduction strategy which delays evaluation of function arguments until they are needed because they are arguments to a primitive function or a conditional. Call-by-need is one part of lazy evaluation. The term first appears in Chris Wadsworth's thesis "Semantics and Pragmatics of the Lambda calculus" (Oxford, 1971, p. 183). It was used later, by J. Vuillemin in his thesis (Stanford, 1973). (1995-05-27). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
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Crosswords: CALL-BY-NEED

Specialty definitions using "CALL-BY-NEED": call-by-name ♦ eager evaluation. (references)

Modern Translation: CALL-BY-NEED

Language		Translations for "CALL-BY-NEED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		叫�"�需要. (various references)

Korean		부르 에 의하여 필�"로 하십시�". (various references)

Pig Latin		all-by-needcay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: CALL-BY-NEED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-e-l-l-n-y"
	-2 letters: leadenly, lendable.
	-3 letters: belaced, belayed, blandly, cadelle, cleaned, cleanly, debacle, dyeable, enabled, enlaced, eyeball, labeled, nacelle.
	-4 letters: adenyl, aneled, baldly, baleen, balled, beadle, beaned, bedell, belady, belled, benday, blende, cabled, called, candle, cellae, celled, clayed, decane, dyable, enable, enlace, lanced, lanely, leaden, leaned, leanly, yeaned, yelled.
	-5 letters: abele, acned, allee, alley, anele, badly, baldy.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-e-e-l-l-n-y"
	+5 letters: hendecasyllabic, hendecasyllable.
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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography

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