# Deferred Execution Semantics

> The requirement that a computation's semantics defer its work until the result is demanded.

Record: `lex:deferred-execution-semantics`
Kind: constraint
Layer: [Execution Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/execution-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-deferred-execution-semantics

## category

- [Streaming / Pipeline / Dataflow Processing](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/streaming-pipeline-dataflow-processing.md)

## referenced-by

- [Lazy Evaluation](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/lazy-evaluation.md)