lazy list

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lazy list - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  lazy list
  
     A list which is built using a non-strict constructor.  Any
     head or tail of the list may be an unevaluated closure.  Also
     known as streams since they may be used to carry a sequence of
     values from the output of one function to an input of another.
     See also Lazy evaluation.