Lecture

Evaluation strategies and termination

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This lecture delves into the evaluation strategies call by name and call by value, emphasizing termination. It explores a theorem relating the termination of both strategies and provides examples to illustrate the differences. The instructor also explains why Scala defaults to call by value and how to explicitly choose call by name.

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