suspensive

adj 1: of a situation; characterized by or causing suspense [syn:

{cliff-hanging}, {suspenseful}]

2: undecided or characterized by indecisiveness

suspension

In {lazy evaluation}, a suspension (or in Henderson's

terminology, a "recipe") is a {closure} with a flag indicating

whether the expression has been evaluated or not. When the

expression is evaluated the first time, this flag is set.

Subsequent requests for the value of the expression will not

attempt to re-evaluate it.

(1995-02-06)