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-An
approach to evaluating expressions in a ProgrammingLanguage. It means that the values of sub-expressions are worked out before passing them to operators, and that the values of parameters are worked out before passing them to functions.
+StrictEvaluation is the traditional
approach to evaluating expressions in a ProgrammingLanguage. It means that the values of sub-expressions are worked out before passing them to operators, and that the values of parameters are worked out before passing them to functions.
-This is the norm in ImperativeProgramming
used in languages
like [C], [C++] or [Java] and in in "unpure" functional programming used in languages like [ML] and [LISP]. Strict evaluation
means you can predict the order that expressions will be evaluated in, so other language features like reassignable variables and a conventional I/O system become practical.
+This is the norm in imperative programming
used in [ProgrammingLanguage]s
like [C], [C++] or [Java] and in in "unpure" functional programming used in languages like [ML] and [LISP]. StrictEvaluation
means you can predict the order that expressions will be evaluated in, so other language features like reassignable variables and a conventional I/O system become practical.
Contrast LazyEvaluation.
