CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (August 2013) Evaluation strategies Eager evaluation Lazy evaluation Partial evaluation Remote evaluation Short-circuit evaluation v t e Short-circuit evaluation , minimal evaluation , or McCarthy evaluation denotes the semantics of some Boolean operators in some programming languages in which the second argument is executed or evaluated only if the first argument does not suffice to determine the value of the expression: when the first argument of the AND function evaluates to false , the overall value must be false ; and when the first argument of the OR function evaluates to true , ...