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delay

clojure.core

Available since 1.0 (source)
  • (delay & body)
Takes a body of expressions and yields a Delay object that will
invoke the body only the first time it is forced (with force or deref/@), and
will cache the result and return it on all subsequent force
calls. See also - realized?