Eager Evaluation

Eager evaluation is when an expression is evaluated as soon as it is bound to a variable. Eager evaluation is used by most traditional programming languages. It is also known as strict evaluation or greedy evaluation.¹

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[1] Eager evaluation, Wikipedia. (2018). https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eager_evaluation&oldid=836564227 (accessed March 10, 2020).