"call-by-name" meaning in English

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        "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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        "(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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