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parameter passing - What is "pass-by-name" and how does it work exactly?

I've checked Wikipedia and googled but I still can't wrap my mind around how pass-by-name works in ALGOL 60.

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I found a good explanation at Pass-By-Name Parameter Passing. Essentially, the body of a function is interpreted at call time after textually substituting the actual parameters into the function body. In this sense the evaluation method is similar to that of C preprocessor macros.

By substituting the actual parameters into the function body, the function body can both read and write the given parameters. In this sense the evaluation method is similar to pass-by-reference. The difference is that since with pass-by-name the parameter is evaluated inside the function, a parameter such as a[i] depends on the current value of i inside the function, rather than referring to the value at a[i] before the function was called.

The page I linked above has some more examples of where pass-by-name is both useful, and dangerous. The techniques made possible by the pass-by-name are largely superseded today by other, safer techniques such as pass-by-reference and lambda functions.


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