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Applicative
Applicative meaning
Having practical application; applicable. | Of a programming language: using successive functional transformations on data to arrive at a result. | Involving the application of an operator on an operand.
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Applicative order always attempts to apply functions to normal forms, even when this is not possible.
Applicative order is not a normalising strategy.
In the above example, in applicative order (λx.
See also portal * Applicative computing systems – Treatment of objects in the style of the lambda calculus * Binary lambda calculus – A version of lambda calculus with binary I/O, a binary encoding of terms, and a designated universal machine.
The Kent Applicative Operating System is a functional operating system concept to use dynamic process creation and inter-process communication.
The positive tradeoff of using applicative order is that it does not cause unnecessary computation, if all arguments are used, because it never substitutes arguments containing redexes and hence never needs to copy them (which would duplicate work).
This is done essentially using applicative order, call by value reduction (see below), but usually called "eager evaluation".