Strict Evaluation
In strict evaluation, the arguments to a function are always evaluated completely before the function is applied.
Under Church encoding, eager evaluation of operators maps to strict evaluation of functions; for this reason, strict evaluation is sometimes called "eager". Most existing programming languages use strict evaluation for functions.
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