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The more usual programming languages are such that parameters must be evaluated in order to be supplied to a function, and moreover the body of a function is evaluated only when parameters are supplied. The first policy is the so called call-by-value parameter passing, and the second policy is called lazy-evaluation. In order to mimic this kind of computation with the parametric λΔ-calculus, it is necessary that Δ be a proper subset of Λ, and moreover it contain all the abstraction terms.
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Rocca, S.R.D., Paolini, L. (2004). The Call-by-Value λ-Calculus. In: The Parametric Lambda Calculus. Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10394-4_3
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