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Back2Basics: Pass-By-Name and HOF in Scala argue as a Husband And Wife.

Scala has lots of features and one of the features always confused me called “pass-by-name” argument.  For me pass by name is same as “higher-order-function” but different from just syntax otherwise everything is same. While googling out for their difference, I found:

Pass-by-name is lazy evaluation but higher-order-functions are eager.

Pass-by-name is used for constructs custom controls.

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