lenient evaluation

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lenient evaluation - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  lenient evaluation
  
     <reduction> An evaluation strategy, described in [Traub,
     FPCA 89], under which all redexes are evaluated in parallel
     except inside the arms of conditionals and inside lambda abstractions
     .  Lenient evaluation is an example of an eager
     evaluation strategy.
  
     (2004-01-22)